WHOLE NO. 699. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1854. 
YOLUME XIY. NO. 14 
OFFICE, 
8 Chardon-strcct 
The Waymarks. 
BY REV. A. C. THOMPSON. 
('Continued from our 
last.) 
GOING far to the north, we will visit the Sa-
guenay. 
We are borne along a stream, broad, 
dark, and 
deep, in places 
even fathomless. 
Lofty mountains, rugged and precipitous, form 
its shores. 
No mortal, not even the Indian, has 
probably ever set foot upon them. 
It is mid-
night; and the moon has gone down behind a 
dark crest of the bleak, western barrier. 
We 
moved onward, amid the awful solitude, till we 
approach one of the everlasting hills which has 
stepped down to the stream, and advanced its 
foot into the water. 
It is called " Eternity 
Point,"—a rock, rising perpendicularly, with 
its majestic front of fifteen hundred feet, while 
the line finds no bottom to the quiet current at 
its base. 
It is a mountain that might be touched 
as we sail by. 
But God has touched the hills, 
and they smoke. 
44 The Mount is altogether on 
a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in 
fire, and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke 
of a furnace." 
Just below, and far down the 
stream, vast tracts are in a blaze. 
It is as if 
the whole region were instinct with volcanic 
forces, and just ready to burst forth in over-
whelming terrer. 
You observe, as your eye 
looks down that gloomy vista, that those livid 
flames are beyond " Eternity Point." 
Ah, traveller! 
whither 
are you bound? 
Nearing " Eternity Point," the raging fires be-
low in full view, what think you of life, of 
death ? 
The hour is coming when " the heaven 
shall depart as a scroll when it is rolled together, 
and every mountain and island be moved out of 
their places. 
And the kings of the earth, and 
the great men, and the chief captains, and the 
mighty men, and every bondman, and every 
freeman, shall hide themselves in the dens and 
in the rocks of the mountains, and shall say to 
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide 
us from the face of Him that sitteth on the 
throne* and from the wrath of the Lamb; for 
the great day of his wrath is come; and who 
shall be able to stand ?" 
Voyagers on the swift current of time, what 
is the prospect opening before us as we round 
Eternity Point ? 
When our bark shall have 
shot by that solemn bourn, and dense darkness 
have veiled—impenetrably veiled—you and me 
from the eyes of those behind, where shall we 
be ? 
Ponder it, ye who spend your years as a 
tale that is told, who are as a sleep; ye who, 
in this night of time, float listlessly along to-
ward the last beacon between this world and the 
next, ponder it. 
44 The wicked shall be turned 
into hell, and all the nations that forget God." 
But while from the midst of that fire we seem 
to hear many a one, crying, 14 Have mercy on 
me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of 
his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am 
tormented in this flame ; " in one direction only 
is there light and peace,—it is in the blue 
heavens above. 
The stars, as they look down 
placidly upon us, speak of the Better Land. 
They remind us of them who 4 4 died in faith, not 
having received the promises, but having seen 
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and 
embraced them, and confessed that they were 
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
For they 
that say such things declare plainly that they 
seek a country. 
And truly, if they had been 
mindful of that country from whence they came 
out,-they might have had opportunity to have 
returned. 
But now they desire a better country 
that is, an heavenly; wherefore God is not 
ashamed to be called their God; for he hath 
prepared for them a city." 
It was on these very stars that Enoch, Noah, 
Abraham and Jacob gazed ; by their light they 
were guided in their journeyings and sojournings, 
aud their silent suggestions from on high awak 
ened earnest and holy desires after another coun-
try. 
Blessed patriarchs! 
44 Ye are not now 
come unto the mount that might be touched, 
and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, 
and darkness, and tempest; but ye are come un-
to mount Sion, and unto the city of the living 
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innu-
merable company of angels, tothegeneral assem-
bly and church of the first-born, which are 
written in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, 
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and 
to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant, and 
to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better 
things than that of Abel." 
44 There is a happy land, 
• Far, tar away, 
Where saints in glory stand, 
Bright, bright as day. 
Hark, how they sweetly sing,— 
Worthy is our Saviour Kirjg ; 
Loud let his praises ring : 
Praise, praise for aye ! 
Come to this happy land, 
Come,'come away ! 
Why will you doubting stand, 
Why thus delay 1 
On, then, to glory on ! 
Be a crown and kingdom won ; 
Then, bright above the sun, 
We'll reign for aye ! " 
We embarked on another stream,—let it be 
the St. Lawrence,—near its head, and move 
downward with the mighty current of a river 
ample enough for the highway of nations, drain-
ing an area of half a million of square miles, 
and the outlet of more than a half the fresh wa 
ter of the globe. 
We sweep by now a solitary 
island, sitting swan-like on the flood; and now 
by a cl uster of th e sam e, 
A n on th e river spreads 
into a broad lake, and then is compressed again 
between its rocky shores. 
We are nearing the 
rapids. 
The bosom of the river heaves and ed-
dies as if leveathan had grown angry, and were 
causing it to boil like a pot. 
And now we are 
swept into the midst of perils of waters where all 
is wild confusion and foam, the rocks on either 
side threatening instant destruction to the vessel, 
which plunges and writhes as if the fatal colli 
sion has already taken place. 
The stoutest hold 
their breath, and glance alternately at the ar 
rowy flood and at the wheel, where four sinewy 
steersmen put forth their strength, and the keen, 
steady eye of the chief pilot re-assures the hearts 
of trembling passengers. 
It is one of life's passages that we have thus 
made. 
Often is the soul in straits, where the 
current whirls and tosses, and there is a sharp 
rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other, 
and it seems as if wreck were unavoidable 
But "rily Father is at the helm." 
With a high 
band and an outstretched arm does he guide his 
children. 
44 God is our refuge and strength, a 
very present help in trouble. 
Therefore will 
not we fear, though the earth be removed, and 
though the mountains be carried into the midst 
of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and 
be troubled, though the mountains shake with 
the swelling thereof." 
On we go, and still on, day after day, along 
that broad mirror, of six hundred miles' length 
that re-duplicates from its clear surface populous 
city, and village, and smiling farm-house, trees 
and clouds, and the ever-varying forms of grand 
eur in the bold ranges that define its borders, 
But the river meets the sea, and is lost. 
And 
is its meaning lost? 
Shall its significancy as a 
symbol be unheeded ? 
Who does not see in it 
time swallowd up in eternity ? life with its depths 
and shallows, its eddies and rapids, its broad 
quiet bosom and its rushing narrows, its bright 
hues and dark vapors, its current urging still on 
to the great ocean ? 
A solemn thing this life-excursion,—once 
made, forever! 
It is something to move the 
soul's lowest depths to look out on the boundless 
expanse beyond, and feel the vast swells, and 
catch the solemn sounds of eternity; and happy 
he, who, in sailing down the stream, has an eye 
to behold the sweet fields beyond.who maintain 
calmness amid the swelling of Jordan; yea, 
whose peace God maketh like a river ! 
What 
believing pilgrim can keep his thoughts away 
from a better 
land, that is, 
an heavenly ? 
41 There is a river, the streams whereof shall 
make glad the city of God, the holy place ofthe 
tabernacles of the Most high. 
God is in the 
midst of her; she shall not be moved." 
41 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: 
thine eyes shall see Jernsalem a quiet habitation, 
a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not 
one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, 
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 
But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a 
place of broad rivers and streams; wherein 
shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gal-
lant ship pass thereby." 
But you have reached the sea, that fearful 
expanse, the highway of the Almighty. 
44 His 
path is in the great deep: his pavilion round 
about him are dark waters and thick clouds of 
the sky." 
And as you have sailed , day after 
day, and week after week, witnessing the wonders 
of God, when the awful anthem of the storm 
was the only music that greeted you ; when you 
were tossed about, a thing of utter helplessness; 
when neither sun nor stars in many days ap-
peared, and no small tempest lay on you; 
then you opened the Apocalypse, and read with 
a delight not to be described: 44 I saw a new 
heaven and a new earth ; for the first heaven 
and the first earth were passed away; and there 
was no more sea." 
You read again and again, 
with heightening appreciation of its meaning : 
44 No more sea ; no more sea." 
Your voyage is to the tropics. 
You visit the 
island toward which this country turns such a 
covetous eye. 
New forms of exuberant vegeta-
tion, the perennial verdure of foliage, the spon 
taneous profusion of fruits, the fragrance of or-
angeries and coffee plantations,the feathery bam 
boo and banana, and the stately classic palm 
supply unlooked for types of beauty, enhanced 
by an atmosphere of singular serenity, and a sky 
of the softest blue. 
There, too, the sun shineth 
in his strength ; 14 there is nothing hid from the 
heat thereof; he rejoiceth as a strong man to 
run a race." 
41 Not, as in northen climes, obscurely bright, 
But one unclouded blaze of living light." 
Evening comes on, and you not only oehold 
familiar stars, but the brilliant constellations of 
the southern firmament look down upon us. 
In-
dividual stars of eminent 
beauty,—Achener 
Canopus, Maia Placida, the star of first magni-
tude nearest the south pole, and the two of simi 
lax rank in Centaur,—rise up to view. 
But 
chiefly are you delighted as the Southern Cross 
presents itself in all its mild ygt impressive 
glory. 
You find special occasion for wonder and 
praise. 
You would fain walk to the house of 
God, in company with them that keep holy time ; 
but, alas! where will you find such ? 
The 
Lord's day is not known : the mummeries of su-
perstition, baptized or unbaptized, are not the 
worship of God. 
All the abomination of slave-
ry and the slave trade obtrude upon your eye; 
and, in the midst of so much that is outwardly 
fair, you shed bitter tears over the blight of sin : 
you are at once drawn and driven to contemplate 
those regions never visited by the curse. 
Who will not bless God, that he has given us 
<feyes to see ?—that at every turn there open to 
view scenes suited to enlarge the mind, and ele-
vate the soul ?—hill, stream, grove, city, cot-
tage, or sweet flower, smiling in every nook and 
cleft of this rough world. 
Hoes not all direct 
your thoughts upward, with ardent longing for 
its holy rest? 
If such be earth—smitten, shat-
tered earth—what must heaven be ? 
When 
earth and all the works that are therein shall 
be burned up, there will be a new heaven and 
new earth unspeakably more glorious than the 
present, in the sanctified recollection of saints 
on high. 
The Ottoman Empire. 
(Concluded from our last) 
I 
SHALL now speak of its present condition, in-
cluding the laws, institutions and customs ofthe 
Turks. This is a difficult task. 
The Turkish gov-
ernment does not publish, like free governments, 
the documents which would make known its reve-
nues, expenses and political acts. 
There are 
but few journals in Turkey, but they do not con-
tain the information we need. 
As to travellers, 
they are mostly superficial and incorrect, having 
neither the means, nor the knowledge necessary 
to ascertain the true condition of Turkey 
Their 
prejudices are generally a great source of error; 
some through antipathy to Mohammedanism, be-
ing resolved beforehand to view every thing un-
der the most unfavorable aspect ; and others 
through a contrary feeling, try to represent the 
Mussulmen in the most flattering colors. 
Sur-
rounded by these inevitable uncertainties, 1 shall 
try to give in this letter all which appears to 
me least liable to dispute. 
Turkey extends into three of the grand divi-
sion of the world: Europe, Asia and Africa: 
Egypt, however, together with the territories of 
Tunis and Tripoli, Walachia, Moldavia, Mon-
tenegro, &c., are rather nominally than really 
subject to the authority of the Sultan : the chiefs 
of .these provinces recognizing Abdul-Medjid as 
their sovereign, but not as their master, in the 
positive sense of the word, and are nota fraid to 
wage war against him, when they find it for their 
interest. 
This is the last vestige of feudal gov-
ernment, preserved in the East. 
The two great divisions of Turkey in Europe 
and Asia possess generally a fertile soil, with a 
mild and salubrious climate. 
Magnificent for-
ests cover the sides of the mountains; rare and 
precious trees, such as the cedar, the cypress, 
the plane tree.and the olive, grow there without 
cultivation. 
The productions of the soil are 
wheat, barley, tobacco, cotten, the vine, &c. 
Although the use of wine is forbidden among 
Mohammedans, they cultivate vineyards with 
great care, to obtain the dried raisins which are 
exquisite. 
The animal kingdom is equally re-
markable for the beauty and usefulness of its 
products. 
The Arabian and Persian horses are 
renowned throughout the world, 
The camel 
render the greatest service to the wandering 
tribes of Asia: and has never been introduced 
into the neighborhood of Constantinople and 
Bulgaria. 
Buffalos are sometime used in agri-
culture, and for the transportation of merchan-
dise. 
The mineral wealth of the Ottoman Em-
pire would be immense if the mines were skill-
fully worked. 
There are mines of lead, mer-
cury, silver, and even gold, quarries of marble, 
charcoal, jasper, alabaster, <fcc.; but all these 
treasures remain in the earth, because science 
and labor are wanted to fender mining profitable. 
Mohammedans make no regular and periodical 
census, so that it is impossible to know the 
exact extent of the population. 
Some geograph-
ers give to Turkey 25 millions of inhabitants; 
others but 15 millions. 
The truth lies probable 
between these extremes. 
This population is 
a confused amalgamation of races of various 
origin, religion, language and customs. 
The 
Turks, 
who call themselves Osmanlis, 
rule; 
but they are not one third part of the whole pop-
ulation. 
They have never possessed the art, nor 
taken the pains to enter into intimate relations 
with their conquered enemies, and now tliey suf-
fer the consequences of their proud spirit of ex-
clusiveness. 
The Turks are numerous, generous, 
hospitable, sincere and upright; but the use of 
opium, idle habits, polygamy, the dogma of fa-
tality, and scorn towards foreigners have en-
feebled and debased them. 
After the Turks come the Greeks. 
Notwith-
standing the establishment of an independent 
kingdom in Greece, there still remain in the Ot-
toman Empire, and especially in European Tur-
key, many millions of Greeks, who are generally 
laborious agriculturalists or skillfull merchants. 
They support with impatience, the Mussulman 
yoke. 
Becently, they raised the standard of in-
surrection in Thessaly, Macedonia, Epirus, and 
other provinces where they are superior in num-
bers to the Turks. 
The armed interference of 
Franee and England has repressed their struggles 
for a time; but they will obtain new privileges; 
and their entire independence,, is simply a ques-
tion of time. 
Armenians 
also compose an important part of 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the population. 
Peaceable, active, parsimoni-
ous, and little disposed to sacrifice their material 
interest for political reform, they have rendered 
themselves useful to the Turks, who usually em-
ploy them to collect the public taxes. 
If the 
Armenians bad been united to the Greeks, they 
would long since have succeeded in breaking the 
Mussulman yoke, at least in European Turkey. 
The Sclavoniam 
and Walachians are in gen-
eral Christians. 
They inhabit the plains watered 
by the 
Danube, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, 
the Moldo-Walachian regions, and the passes 
of the Balkan, and their population amounts to 
nearly seven million souls, 
They have never 
been entirely subject to the authority of the 
Turks, and at the present time they possess com-
parative liberty. 
The Czar Nicholas has especi-
laly counted upon their aid in the present war. 
There are about 800,000 Jem in the Ottoman 
Empire, 
They are dispersed in Syria, Palestine, 
and the great commercial cities. 
Their condi-
tion is sad. 
Despised both by Mohammedans 
and Christians, exposed to numberless persecu-
tions, they have fallen into a state of deep deg-
radation, on the-soil upon which their ancestors 
once reigned. 
Finally, the Arabs and other less numerous 
races complete the population of Turkey. 
A 
few wandering tribes in the Empire still lead 
their ancient life ot rapine aud plunder. 
The Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages 
are spoken by the Mohammedans, and these 
are the languages of reilgion, science, and of 
all political documents, and of public officers. 
The modern Greek, the Armenian, the Hebrew, 
and the Syriac are the languages of the conquered 
tribes. 
The lingua franca 
is not a distinct language, 
but a jargon employed by the Christians from 
the West, who reside or carry on business in the 
East. 
Every one knows that the form of government 
in Turkey is despotic. 
The Sultan is at the 
same time the temporal sovereign and the spirit-
ual head of the State; 
He is regarded as the 
successor of the ancient caliphs, and the heir of 
Mahomet, 
This double power legitimizes the 
most cruel acts of tyranny. 
As soon as the Sul-
tan is girded with the sword of Othman, in the 
great mosque of Eyoub, and has sworn to defend 
the law of the Koran, he becomes absolute mas-
ter, and may dispose of the property and lives of 
his subjects according, to his good pleasure. 
But 
religious traditions, old customs, and popular 
prejudices put certain limits to the power of the 
Sultan. 
They have often been deposed, or exe-
cuted, because they had overstepped the conse-
crated limits. 
A historian has said that the 
Turkish government is a despotism limited by 
regicide. 
The Sultan bears the name of padis-
had, or Grand Signor, 
and the decrees proceed-
ing from his immediate will are called hatti-
cheriffs. 
Formerly the transmission of the sov-
ereign power, although hereditary, took place 
without regular succession ; now, the eldest son 
always succeeds his father. 
This change hag 
put an end to the horrible massacres which usu-
ally signalized the succession of a new padishah. 
The ulemas, or mlcmas, 
an Arabic term for 
learned 
or literary 
mien, exercise, next to the 
Sultans, a great influence. 
They are ministers 
of religion, doctors of law, and judges of various 
rank. 
They pay no public taxes, and have the 
exclusive privilege of not being exposed to any 
confiscation. 
Some Sultans have vainly at 
tempted to diminish the power of this numerous 
and redoubtable body. The ulemas are sustained 
by the general beliefs. 
Their chief, who resides 
at Constantinople, is equal to the grand vizier; 
enjoying the same honors and prerogatives. 
He 
bears the name of cheik-ul-islam. 
The cheik-
ul-islam having lately declared against the con 
cessions made to Christians, the Sultan deprived 
him of his office; but the old Turks were much 
dissatisfied; and if the territory of the empire 
had not been occupied by the Anglo-French 
troops, Abdal-Medjid would not have dared to 
do what he has done. 
high functions, he receives a seal upon which is 
engraved the name of the sovereign, and he al-
ways wears upon his breast the badge of his 
greatness. 
The Grand-viziers have sometimes 
been dangerous to their masters, and have con' 
tributed to their fall. 
Now more restrained by 
European civilization, and less fanatical, they 
have ceased to take part in the conspiracies of 
the palace, 
Tlie departments of civil power are 
occupied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, of 
War, of Finances and Commerce. 
The chiefs 
of the army and fleet have a place in the ses-
sions of the Divan, with the dignitaries of the 
empire. 
There is no .class of nobles in Turkey. 
Every one may attain to any office. 
Men of the 
lowest condition may become Grand-viziefs, if 
they have the talent of pleasing the Sultan. 
The Vashas, 
or governors of provinces, have 
acquired 
proverbial 
renown 
throughout 
the 
world, for their tyranny. 
They generally pos-
sess, in the territorial limits which are intrusted 
to them, an authority as absolute as that of their 
master; they are Sultans in miniature. 
The 
civil power, military command, levy of taxes, 
and superintendence of schools, are all subject 
to their caprices, 
Lately the Turkish govern-
ment has made great efforts to diminish the 
power of the pashas; it especially wished to 
take from them the administration of the finances; 
but the strength of custom and want of able men 
have prevented the realization of this project. 
The Divan is reduced to the necessity of chang-
ing frequently the pashas, in order to render 
them more dependent; but this has not always 
produced good results. 
Since the pashas are 
not sure of keeping their place long, they in-
crease their exactions, and strive to make for-
tunes rapidly, shamelessly spoiling their poor 
subjects, especially the Christians. 
The other functionaries are the beys, the voi-
vodes, the cadis, &c. 
There are no precise lim-
its to tho powers of these numerous officers. 
Every one extorts from the people as much as he 
can. 
There is no vigilant control; it is one 
vast system of fraud and oppression. 
Many 
functionaries are merely robbers with a legal 
title. 
I will close with a few words on the agricul-
tural, commercial, and industrial condition of 
Turkey, although travelers give but imperfect 
information upon these points. 
Agriculture 
is in a deplorable condition, be-
cause the oppression weighing upon the cultiva-
tors is so great, that every one fears to plant or 
raise more than is necessary for his own con-
umption. 
Commerce and all branches of indus-
try suffer from the same cause. 
The Ottomon 
empire is admirably 
situated for 
mercantile 
operations; a large business might be carried 
on with the whole world from these privileged 
regions; but the Mahommedans are too proud to 
engage in commerce and Christian merchants, 
constantly fear vexation and wrongs. 
As to 
public instruction, schools are numerous, but 
little is taught in them. 
If a Turk desires to 
have solid or extended knowledge, he must go 
to the universities of France, Germany, or Eng-
land, and this expense for education is only in-
curred by a handful of eminent persons, 
The 
army, in time of peace, is fixed at 120,000 in-
fantry, and 50,000 cavalry. 
It is badly disci-
plined, the Turks with difficulty accustoming 
to European tactics. 
They have nevertheless 
fought against Russia with a courage which has 
astonished the Western Powers. 
The present 
General-in-chief, Omer-Pasha, 
is a Christian by 
birth, who has embraced Islamism through a 
feeling of hatred against Austria. 
The Turkish 
fleet was destroyed twenty-five years ago in the 
battle of Navarino, and has never entirely re-
covered from this fatal blow. 
In conclusion, the Ottoman Empire approaches 
its inevitable downfall. 
It is a vast body doubly 
exhausted by internal vices and by age. 
Vainly 
do France and England try to give it new life: 
the Mahommedan nations are doomed to fall 
and they Will fall. 
' 
Observer, 
There are colleges for the education of the 
ulemas. 
Their studies are protracted ; some in 
the superior offices pursue them till the age of 
forty years. 
But the circle of their knowledge 
is very limited. 
The Koran contains all which 
they require. 
It is here that they seek, beside 
their religious ideas, knowledge of physic, as 
tronomy, natural history, geography, jurispru-
dence, and all the sciences. 
Certain ulemas of 
inferior rank fill the office of preachers 
in the 
mosques. 
It is superfluous to say that these pre-
tended preachers are poor declaimers, who have 
not the least oratorical art, and resemble the 
Capucins of popery. 
The mosues possess large 
estates, which are governed by a special code, 
so that the ulemas live on their own property and 
ask no salary from the treasurer of the States; 
as the Romish clergy did in the middle ages. 
Above all these functionaries is the 
Grand 
Vizier. 
He is the chief of the executive and 
military power. 
He represents the Sultan in all 
the acts of temporal government. 
His decrees 
are called firmans. 
He presides over the Divan, 
or Supreme Council. 
At his entrance into the 
Letter from J- Litch. 
(Continued 
from 
No. 
11.) 
TUESDAY, July IDA.—Commenced our meet-
ings atMoline, Rock Island Co., Saturday even-
ing ; 
brother J. Cummins preached in the 
School-House where the brethren hold their reg-
ular meetings. 
Adventists in Alabama are an 
example worthy of imitation in this respect, and 
by their faithful perseverance in holding prayer-
meetings and after their ability holding up the 
light, they keep up their own spirituality and 
life, and also exert a salutary influence on the 
community. 
Another point is worthy of note 
and imitation. 
That as soon as the people 
could begin to assemble, and before preaching 
it was their practice to hold a prayer-meeting 
and thus getting into a frame of mind to listen 
attentively, and interestedly to the word, and 
make it easy preaching. 
Perseverance in such 
a course must ultimately be crowned with suc-
cess in establishing a good healthful church 
The place is a most interesting and enterprising 
one, and the cause in a healthy, prosperous con-* 
dition. 
Sabbath morning I preached at Moline to a 
good congregation of attentive hearers ; and ia 
the afternoon, and evening, in the New School 
Presbyterian Church, in Rock-Island city, the 
pastor having kindly and liberally given up the 
use of his desk to u-s for the1 clay. 
Brother Ede 
Lee occupying it in the morning. 
All seemed 
pleased and interested in the doctrine set forth. 
Brother Cummins preached in the afternoon, 
at Moline, to a full House and a d^feply inter-
ested audience. 
Monday evening, preached again in Moline, 
and have reason to hope the labor will not be 
lost, 
Tuesday afternoon, and evening, hid an 
appointment in Davenport, Iowa. 
This is a 
flourishing 
young city on the Western bank of 
the Mississippi, opposite Rock-Island city, the 
two being connected by Steam-Ferry Boats, but 
soon to be united by a Rail-Road Bridge, which 
at this place is to span the-" Father of waters." 
Both Rock-Island city, and Davenport, are im-
portant points and will constitute great Central 
cities, and exert a commanding influence on the 
West and North West. 
Our appointment was 
at the Disciples church: but oweing to some 
misunderstanding in the announcement, no one 
was in attendance and so after waiting an hour, 
we returned to Moline, and had most precious 
prayers and Conference 
meeting at Brother 
Ruggles', which closes our labors, in Rock-Isl-
and county. 
But the cordiality and kindness 
with which we were received and the seasons we 
enjoyed with the little church there, will long 
be remembered by us. 
Brother Cummins in-
tends taking Moline, and Hampton, into his cir-
cuit. 
May God bless him, and them. 
They 
are worthy of a good faithful pastor, and do not 
want any other. 
The brethren in the West were 
much disappointed that the health of Brother 
Ede Lee's family rendered it necessary for him 
to return home to Canada, just as he was recov-
ering his own health so as to be able to preach 
some. 
They had hoped to have enjoyed his la-
bors, and councils, in that region of country. 
MONDAY, July 
Ylth.—We 
left Moline, on 
Wednesday, P.M. for Burlington, Iowa, a dis-
tance of about eighty miles, by land rout, and 
arrived on Friday, 14th, and met a cordial 
greeting and hearty welcome from my old friend 
and brother, James Branderburg, formerly of 
Shippinsburg, Pa. Brother B., although alone 
or nearly so in faith both in Pennsylvania, and 
Iowa, has stood fast from the beginning, wait-
ing for the Son of God from Heaven. 
His dis-
appointment was great last fall when he failed 
of seeing Brother Himes, as was also that of 
many others in Burlington. 
Friday evening I 
preached in the city Council's Hall, which they 
had freely offered for our meetings while we 
were in the city. 
We occupied it Friday and 
Saturday evenings, and notwithstanding the in-
tense heat of the weather we had great attend-
ance and attention. 
Sabbath morning we met the people in the 
Market-House, and preached at nine o'clock, to a 
very attentive Congregation. 
At half past 10 
o'clock went to the Methodist Episcopal church 
where I was kindly invited by its pastor to preach 
for him, which I did to a deeply interested au-
dience. 
Afternoon, and evening, I preached in 
the Baptist church which was also kindly offered 
us for the services. 
The thermometer stood at about ninety-eight, 
and as may be supposed, four rather long ser-
mons were somewhat exhausting to the flesh, but 
I found the promise verified '' thy day is%o shall 
thy strength be," and went through the effort 
with no particular harm. 
Monday, no boat 
downward bound making its appearance, was a 
day of rest as far as the intense heat would ad-
mit of resting. 
We also received an invitation 
to visit a family by the name of Shaw. 
They 
a^e " Plymouth brethren " and standing alone 
in their faith in B., are mostly cut off from any 
congenial associations. 
Our visit was an ex-
ceedingly pleasant one and I trust mutually 
profitable one, while we discoursed on the things 
of the kingdom 
Brother Cummins has accompanied me thu; 
far through my whole rout, with his convey-
ance so that we have been together nearly day 
and night for seven weeks, and by his uniform 
kirfQness and Christian deportment he has ex-
ceedingly endeared himself to my heart. 
The 
remembrance of these weeks will be a cordial to 
my 
heart in my 
pilgrimage, so pleasantly, 
and I trust profitably have they passed away 
Brother Cummins' labors have been of essential 
service to the Advent cause in Illinois, and the 
door of usefulness seems more and more opening 
before him. 
I trust the brethren will see him 
abundantly sustained in his work, and that he 
will not be discouraged under seeming difficul-
ties and trials. 
But here we must part for the 
present. 
Brother Burdett, from Hancock Co., 
having come up on Brother Chapman's behalf 
to accompany me to that place. 
God speed and 
bless Brother Cummins in his work. 
July 24th.—My labors in Hancock Co., are 
now closed. 
I left Burlington, Iowa, by steam 
boat, Tuesday noon, for Dallas, a few miles 
down the river where brother Burdett Bad left 
his horse and baggy. 
From Dallas, we went 
to Carthage, where we arrived about 12 o'clock 
at night, and put up with Elder James Bennett, 
a Free-will Bapt?strformerly from New England; 
and who also waits for the consolation of Israel. 
There had been an appointment far me to preach 
at the Court-House, in Carthage, on Tuesday 
evening, but we were unable to reach there in 
time to fill it, 
Wednesday morning the Metho-
dist church wa3 proffered for a 10 o'clock ser-
vice, when a good audience were in attendance, 
among whom were both the Methodist and Pres-
byterian preachers, to whom I spoke for about 
two hours on the First and Second Adam. 
The 
Lord accompanied the word and a deep impres-
sion was made on the minds of the people in fa-
vor of the Adveat faith, and 1 trust on some 
minds on the importance of an interest in the 
Second Adam, as the only ground of hope for 
sinness, 
Carthage, is the county seat, of Hancoek 
county, in which is situated Nauvo, famous for 
its Mormon temple, Mormon war, &c., and Car-
thage, as the place where the Smith's were shot. 
I visited the jail where the affair transpired and 
examined the localities. 
In the afternoon went to Bear Creek, or Bas-
co, where a grove 
m'efeting was 
appointed. 
Here I met with that old and tried veteran of 
the cause in the West, Brother S. Chapman. 
More than twelve years had elapsed since we 
had before met, and parted with the full hope of 
more than ten years since meeting in the king-
dom of God. 
But here we are still buffeting 
with the billows of life, " Looking for that 
blessed hope." 
In Feb, 1842, Brother Cum-
mins came from Hartford, Ct., to Willimantic 
where I was lecturing, to hear some Advent lec-
tures and take me with him to Hartford. 
He 
at that time fully embraced the Advent faith 
and soon after closed his business, and went 
round among his friends to talk with them pri-
vately on the Lord's coming and kingdom, not 
expecting to preach. 
But God put him into 
the ministry, and in spite of the devil, who has 
tried hard to hinder him, has kept him in it to 
this day. 
No man living, in the Advent ranks, 
has had more signal success,' or been blessed 
with so many 
seals in souls coaverted and 
churches established. 
Thousands in the day of Christ, will rise up to 
thank God for the labors of Brother Chapman. 
On arriving at the grove found the Congrega-
tion assembled and waiting, and although un-
well and greatly fatigued, preached to an ex-
cellent congregation afternoon and evening. 
Thursday morning, went to St. Albans, 
but 
was too unwell to fill the appointment. 
Brother 
Chapman spoke in the morning in the grove, and 
the rain prevented afternoon service. 
Found a 
home and good nursing at the hospitable man-
sion of Brother Slater, and Friday, Saturday, 
and Sunday continued the meetings in the grove 
and Church, as the state of the weather indi-
cated. 
The meetings were seasons of refresh-
ings, and I shall long remember my visit to and 
parting from the brethren at St. Albans. 
May 
God bless them abundantly and smite them more 
and more, and give them a man after his own 
heart to feed them and watch over them is my 
earnest prayer. 
MONDAY, July 31s?.—Last evening closed my 
labors in Illinois. 
Thursday evening commenced 
our meetings near brother Winslow's, five miles 
from Perry, and continued them over the Sab-
bath ; Brother Chapman filling the appointment 
on Friday, while I went to Griggsville, about 
ten miles distant where 1 preached in the even-
ing in the Congfegational church to a good 
congregation. 
Saturday, preached three times in the school-
house, and twice on the Sabbath in the grove. 
The attendance, for the population, was excellent, 
and the Spirit of God was present and moved 
among the congregation. 
Many were affected 
to tears and I hope may find pardon and eternal 
life. 
Our sacramental season w: a deeply in-
teresting. 
The church was mostly raised up 
under the labors of Brother Chapman, last win-
ter. 
Brother David Winslow, who had some 
years preached occasionally among the Baptists, 
united with them, was unanimously elected pas-
tor, and ordained for the work of the ministry. 
Brother Moses Winslow, also, is very efficient in 
sustaining the cause and holding meetings both 
at home and in adjacent places. 
The cause, I 
think, will live and prosper under their faithful 
eare and labors. 
THURSDAY, 
Aug. 
3d.—Arrived 
about two 
o'clock, this 
morning, in Cleaveland, Ohio. 
Monday, left brother Winslow's, ard started for 
Springfield, where I arrived about s?unset- and 
found a cordial welcome at the house of that 
old, tried 
and faithful friend of the Advent 
cause, Dr. M. Helm. 
This is truly a pilgrims 
home, where I rested a day on my journey, en-
joyed a most agreeable visit with the Dr. and 
his family, and Tuesday night took the cars for 
this place, where I am by invitation of brother 
H. B. Skinner. 
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315 1 
MONDAY, Aug. 1th.—Had 
an agreeable day 
with the old Advent friends, in Cleaveland. 
Preached three times in the church owned by 
Mr. Newton; 
enjoyed a pleasant visit with 
brother Skinner and family, and closed the la-
bors of an eleven weeks' tour. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
THE Cunard screw steamer, Alps, 
arrived at 
this port on the 28th ult., bringing dates from 
Liverpool as late as-the I3th,—four days later 
than previous accounts. 
A correspondant of the London 
Times writes 
of the negotiations: 
"VIENNA, 
Sept. 
8.—The opinions of this 
government, as they have been communicated to 
its diplomatic agents abroad may be given in. a 
few words. 
Although Austria does not consid-
er the rejection of thefour conditions a casus belli, 
she still looks on the guarantees demanded by 
the Western Powers as the only basis for a du-
rable peace, and will, therefore, at the same 
time that she maintains her armed neutrality, 
neglect no opportunity of urging Russia to ac-
cept them." 
The same writer says the Prussian government 
is even less inclined than before to make common 
cause with the three Powers. 
The excuse for 
holding back is that the Emperor Nicholas, " at 
the demand of the German Powers," has con-
sented to quit the Turkish territories, and there-
fore Prussia do'es not feel herself called on ac-
tively to interfere in the quarrel between the 
Western Powers and Russia. 
FROM THE BALTIC.—The news from the Baltic 
is confirmatory of the opinion that no further 
important movements would be undertaken in 
that quarter this season 
BERLIN, Sept. 9.—According to the last in-
j 
formation we have received from 
the 
fleet, 
through the Bull-Bog, 
which left Ledsund on 
the 5th and arrived at Dantsic yesterday after-
noon, Admiral Napier proposed, on the 16th 
inst., to proceed to Nargen, an island lying to 
the north of Revel. 
It is hardly to be expected 
that he has any intention of establishing a naval 
station there for the winter, since, according to 
all accounts, the anchorage there is by no means 
good. 
The inhabitants and garrison have made 
up their minds to a bombardment. 
The French troops seem to be in full career 
for "la belle France;" 
on the 4th inst. they 
commenced their return. 
An English steamer, 
with another vessel in tow, passed Copenhagan 
on the 8th, having 1800 French troops on 
board. 
Ten vessels of the combined forces were 
in sight from the Danish capital. 
Yesterday 
evening six vessels, with French troops onboard, 
anchored in Kiel harbor, and it was presumed 
that there were cases of cholera on board, which 
had induced them to come there and take the 
benefit of the fortress at Friedrichsort, which 
had been made over to them for a hospital. 
There was a considerable number of vessels in 
sight when this telegraph message was sent off 
yesterday evening. 
The Gladiator 
the Cum-
berland and the Belleisle left Ledsund for Eng-
land on the 4th. 
Preparations were making at Brest and Cher-
bourg, for the return of the Baltic squadron. 
We read in the Phare de la Manche : 
" Next month we shall witness in our harbor 
a great naval spectacle. 
The entire squadron 
of Admiral Parseval Deschens, composed of 45 
men of war, returning from the Baltic to winter 
in the ports of France, will cast anchor at Cher-
bourg, in company with ten English steamers 
and sailing vessels, having on board the expedi-
tionary corps under the orders of Marshal Bar-
aguay d'Hilliers, who are to be disembarked at 
the port, with all their material. 
We shall then 
behold an immense fleet of 55 vessels, carrying 
36,000 men, entering our harbor by the same 
tide. 
This news is "official." 
BERLIN, Spt. 
8.—TH: French steamer 
frrit.n 
arrived at Dantsic on Wednesday night, having 
Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers and General Niei 
on board. 
It is understood that the two French 
officers intended to leave Dantsic in a day or 
two, and return home by the land route. 
The 
Fulton left the fleet at Ledsund on the 5th, at 
which date the destruction of the fortress of Bom-
ersund had been completed; all the battering 
artillery that had landed had been re-shipped, 
and the troops re-embarked. 
Although there 
seem good grounds fof assuming that the French 
land troops will return home almost immediately, 
there seems to be every appearance that a great 
part, if not the entire, of the British naval force 
will remain in those waters. 
THE WAR 
ON THE DANUBE.—A 
proclamation, 
it is said, has been issued by a Russian General 
to the inhabitants of Odessa, commanding them, 
in case the allied forces should attempt the cap-
ture of their city, to reduce it to ashes, and re-
tire to a town in the interior. 
By way of giv-
ing effect to the injunction, it is in the same edict 
expressly declared that any persons remaining 
.behind, or making any attempt to extinguish the 
flames, will do so at their proper peril. 
The 
London 
Times, 
commenting on this proclama-
tion, says : 
" It is not in any interest of our own that we 
thus -speak of General Krusenstern's edict. 
As 
far as the prospects of the war are concerned, 
nothing could be more advantageous to the allies 
than that the Czar should visit the property of 
his subjects with that destruction which our own 
humanity forbids us to inflict. 
Certainly it is 
for our benefit that the Russians should burn 
their towns and blow up their fortifications, as 
it would also be that they should sink their own 
fleets and fire upon their own soldiers." 
VIENNA, Sept. 9.—The news from the East is 
of unusual interest. 
The Moldavian militia has 
been incorporated with the Russian army. 
The 
Lloyd 
has a letter from Jassy on the subject. 
On the 4th all the militia regiments were assem-
bled by order of General Osten-Sacken, and he, 
in the name of the Czar, informed them that 
they were from that day "to form an integral 
part of the Russian army." 
They were further 
informed that, if His Majesty was pleased to 
withdraw his armies for a time from the Princi-
palities, the militia must accompany them and 
fight against the enemy who now presume to at-
tack the Czar on his own territories. 
On hear-
ing this sentence some of the men stood as if 
petrified, while others threw away their arms, 
declaring that they would not go. 
Many offi-
cers who refused to obey the orders of the Russian 
commander were arrested, « put into irons," and 
are to be sent across the frontiers into Bessara-
bia. 
A strong impression prevailed at Brailow and 
Galatz that the Russians will set fire to the two 
towns before they leave. 
At Kalarasch, on the 
Bulk or Byk, which is at no great distance from 
Kichineff, in Bessarabia, a vast quantity of pow-
der has been accumulated, and on the 30th of 
August the place was set on fire on all four sides 
by Polish soldiers. 
Some Cossack patrols caught 
the men in the very act, " and they were imme-
diately tied to horses' tails, and so quartered 
alive." 
Early in the evening of the 1st of September 
the Russians began to destroy their fortifications 
and intrenchments on the line of the Sereth. 
The troops are first concentrated in detachments, 
and then meeting at some appointed place they 
form columns and march towards Pruth. 
On the 2d ot September the official communi-
cation was made to the Wallachian authorities 
at Brailow that the troops were on the point of 
leaving. 
Already, on the 2d, General Luders. 
had began to move his troops across the Pruth 
from Galatz to Reni. 
It is rumored at Herman-
stadt that the troops under Gen. Uschakofi al-
ready occupy the Bessarabian coast from the 
Killa mouth up to the fortress of Ackerman at 
the embouchure of the Dniester, while those un-
der General Luders will be posted on the left 
bank of the Danube from Reni to the Black 
Sea. 
The order of march given for the centre of the 
Russian army was, that Gen. Dannenberg was 
to be at Kichineff, in Bessarabia, where Prince 
Gortschakoff will have his head-quarters on the 
20th. 
The right wing, under Gen. Liprandi, 
was to reach Mohiiefi on the same day. 
If all 
this be correct, the position of the Russo-Danu-
bian army will be as follows:—The right wing 
will face the Austrians in the Bukovina, the 
centre the Austrian corps of occupation in Mol-
davia, and the left wing the Turks at Galatz and 
in the Dobrudscha. 
There is reason to believe 
that the Turks will not advknee from the Buseo 
until the Russians have entirely left the Princi-
palities. 
The gros of the Turkish army in Wallachia 
—18,000 men—is under canvas at Colentina. 
All the troops which were fit for service have 
been sent from Shumla to Varna, and a part of 
them are gone with the expedition to Sebasto-
pol ; the remainder will garrison Varna and 
Baltshik. 
We have had repeated accounts that the Suli-
na mouth of the Danube had been opened, but 
the Austrian Lloyds says : 
" Our last advices from Bucharest are of the 
30th of August." The Russians are 
making 
great preparations for the defence of the left 
bank of the Danube, in Bessarabia. 
Reinforce-
ments continually arrive at Ismail, and 1 count-
less batteries ' have been erected on the Danu-
bian islands. 
On the left bank of the river long 
lines of guns are to be seen. 
All the supplies of 
corn and other provisions have been collected in 
certain places, and are to be destroyed ' if the 
enemy should succeed in obtaining a footing in 
Bessarabia.'" 
The Augsburg 
Gazette 
learns that it has been 
settled between Omar Pasha and Baron Hess 
that the Austrians are to garrison the 18 princi-
pal towns in Great and Little Wallachia, but 
that all the passages of the Danube and the 
tetes-de-pont, 
with Bailow and Galatz (in Mol-
davia) shall have Turkish garrisons. 
Omar Pa-
sha's arms is said to be composed of 60,000 foot, 
24,000 horse [?] and 120 guns. 
Prince Michael Gortschakoff has sent infor-
mation to the Russian Embassy at Vienna, that 
his principal force will have quitted Moldavia 
by the 20th of September, and the remainder of 
the troops by the beginning of October, 44 unless 
hostile operations should render a fresh concen-
tration necessary." 
The occupation by the Austrians causes much 
dissatisfaction among the Wallachians. 
The re-
cent proclamation of General Hess has been 
suppressed as much as possible. 
Omar Pasha is 
said to be much annoyed by the arrangements 
which are being made, and at the proclamation 
which has been issued. 
THE EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA.—The Consti-
tutional 
publishes the following from Varna, of 
the 27th ult., containing interesting details rela-
tive to the expedition: 
" The first division will weigh anchor on the 
2d inst. 
It will consist of 30,000 French, from 
20,000 to 25,000 English and 8,000 or 10,000 
Turks; 
the three 
squadrons may afterwards 
land 15,000 men; so that the torce about to in-
vade the Crimea will amount to 80,000 men. 
A second division will follow shortly afterwards. 
The combined armies are supplied with an im-
mense material. 
The field artillery particularly 
will have an overwhelming superiority. 
The 
English are to bring with them their entire cav-
alry. 
Ours is too numerous to form part of the 
first convey. 
It it assembling at Bourgas, and 
will be conveyed in two divisions. 
Fourteen 
ships of the line are to constitute the corvs de 
bataille of our naval army—a force sufficient to 
defeat the 14 Russian sail of the line should 
they venture out of Sebastopol. 
Three thousand 
guns may, within the three hours required for 
landing the troops, vomit on the coast 300,,000 
balls and shells." 
The Constantinople correspondent of the same 
journal writes that on the 30th ult., not a single 
English or French vessel remained in the port 
or in the Bosphorus. 
All had left to place 
themselves under the orders of the Admirals. 
The last cleared out on the morning of the 30th, 
with the two English regiments which had ar-
rived a few days before at Constinople. 
Letters of the 30th of August from Odessa 
prove that the inhabitants of that city fully ex-
pect another visit. 
During the 28th and 29th 
vessels were seen cruising off the port. 
Sebasto-
pol is preparing for the approaching conflict. 
Forts are being constructed at a distance of 20 
miles from Sebastopol, for the protection of the 
coast, and in addition to the garrison " there is 
an intrenched camp with 60,000 men." 
Great 
numbers of fireships have been prepared. 
The 
Russian fleet is ready to move, and the best pilots 
have been taken on board. 
Prince Henchikoff 
is extremely active in preparing tor defence. 
All the ships had left Varna on the 2d of 
September, and those at Bourgas Bay sailed on 
the 31st of August. 
The embarkation would take place at Balt-
schik, where the two armies had concentrated. 
Letters received in Paris from officers at the 
head quarters of Marshal de St. Arnaud, an-
nounced that the expedition would positively put 
to sea on the 2d inst. 
Three days afterwards it 
was anticipated, the expedition will have landed 
on the coast of the Crimea. 
FROM 
THE 
ARMY 
IN ASIA.—The recent suc-
cesses of the Russians in Asia have been ren-
dered nugatory by a diversion made by Schamyl. 
A letter from Erzeroum of the 12th ult., in the 
Paris 
Pays, «says: 
" I have to announce to you a fact which has 
produced a great sensation in Asia, and is of 
material importance, after the defeat of the 
Turks at Kars. 
We had feared a moment that 
the Russians would march upon Erzeroum, but 
we are now without apprehension on that subject. 
Schamyl, at the head of 16,000 horsemen, has 
descended from the mountains into Georgia. 
As 
the Russians expected no attack on that side, 
they were not on their guard. 
The Circassian 
chief has inflicted upon them serious damage. 
200 villages were put to fire and sword. 
Scha-
myl is now within a few leagues of Teflis. 
Ba-
jazid has been evacuated by the Russians, who 
have entirely withdrawn from the Ottoman ter-
ritory. 
It is not known whether this movement 
was occasioned by the presence of Schamyl in 
the neighborhood of Teflis, or whether the corps 
which occupied Bajazid had been recalled, in 
order to fill up the extensive vacancies caused 
by the last battle. 
Be this as it may, the com-
munications with Persia, which had been inter-
rupted, are now completely free." 
LATER 
INTELLIGENCE. 
The America 
arrived at Halifax in the P.M. 
of the 28th, with intelligence from Liverpool to 
the 16th ult, 
THE WAR.—The expedition to the'Crimea has 
sailed. 
It was the largest naval force ever con-
centrated, consisting of seven hundred ships, 
carrying at once 70,000 men, with horses, guns, 
pontoons, ganions, tents, provisions and all the 
materials of war. 
The fleet is managed by 25,-
000 seamen, and carries 3,000 cannon. 
The 
land force comprises 25,000 English soldiers, 
| 
35,000 thousand French, 10,000 Egyptians, 
j 
50,000 Tuniseans, and 5,000 Turkish "soldiers. 
On the 3d, the greaterpart of the English squad- 
1 
ron, with the British troops on board, and on 
the 5th, Marshal St. Arnaud and the Turkish 
part of the force, left Varna to join the expedi-
tion at Fedornee or Serpent Island, off the mouth 
of the Danube, and opposite Eupatoria, on the 
| 
Crimea. 
The debarkation will take place at a 
point near Baba, near the mouth of the river j 
Katcha, where there is 15 fathoms of Water.— 
Once landed, the allies will entrench themselves. 
The Russians must next be driven from ike 
field, 
j 
or they will occupy the heights about the city. 
, 
From the sea, Fort Constantine, mounting 110 
: 
guns, will be the principal object of attack-. 
A 
position has already been discovered by which : 
the Russian fleet can be enfiladed, either set on 
fire in the harbor, or compelled to come out and 
fight. 
Not much is known of the Russian preparations. 
Prince Menschikoff in person will conduct the 
defence of Sebastopol, 
He attaches great im-
portance to Forts Gezakofl and Kherson, and 
about a thousand men are engaged in strengthen-
ing those places. 
Continual reinforcements ar- • 
rive at Odessa, and pass on; 60,000 men are 
said to be in camp, besides a full garrison in the 
city. 
A number of ships were being converted 
into fire-ships. All the available pilots were be-
ing distributed among the ships. 
The Allies 
< • 
were, seemingly prepared for their coming out. 
A new levy of ten men in every thousand 
throughout the Western part of the Empire has 
been made. 
There are- rumors current that the French 
Admiral Harndin strongly opposed the expedition 
against Sebastopol; that Marshal St. Arnaud 
takes the sole responsibility and that sealed 
orders were on their way from France to discou- 
j 
tinue it. 
But this may be all rumor. 
THE BALTIC.—There is a report that the Bal- 
j 
tic fleet is ordered to return to Eugland, which 
causes apprehensions that the Russian fleet will 
escape from the Baltic and commit depredations 
upon' commerce in the open sea. 
There is also 
a rumor that Sir Charles Napier wishes to re-
sign. 
The Anglo-French detatchment had landed at ( 
Ubricasborg, near Sweaborg, destroyed some 
I 
gunboats and set the town on fire. 
THE DANUBE.—The Russians have evacuated j j 
Brail a and Galatz^,consequently the navigation 
If1 
of the Danube is free. 
On the 4th, Gen. Lu- I • 
ders removed his head quarters from Galatz to 
Rent, 
Before leaving, he blew up the fortifica-
tions and strand batteries, 
It is reported that the Turks entered Fokscha-
my on the 6th. 
j 
Count Coronini, at the head of4000 Austrians, 
entered Bucharest and was formally received by 
Omar Pasha with a Turkish division and a de-
tachment of Wallachian militia. 
The London Baily 
News reports that there are 
j 
already disagreements between Omar Pasha and 
] 
the Austrian Commanders. 
ASIA.—The Russian army 
corps, recently 
• 
operating under Prince Rebuterff against the 
j 
Turks on the frontier of Georgia has made a sud-
den and unexpected retrograde movement upon 
Gumri. 
The Turks found the Russian camp 
deserted and guns spiked. 
It is not known 
whether the retreat was caused by the presence 
of Schamyl with a large force near Tiflis, or by 
the report of the allied movements in the Black 
Sea. 
This movement gave rise to a report that 
Schamyl had gained a great victory at Tiflis. 
I 
The Russians said that they had lost seven guns, 
300 tents, &c.« 
The Times says that on Aug. 25th, the Turkish 
Minister left Teheran for Erzerom. 
The rupture berween Persia and the Ottoman 
i 
Porte is complete. 
THE NEGOTIATIONS.—The answer of Russia has 
been officially notified by Austria to the repre-
sentatives of the Western powers. 
The 
Inde-
pendence Beige gives its substance. 
Russia ex-
presses surprise that Austria should have trans-
mitted such proposals to St. Petersburg, unac-
companied by any concession on the part of the 
Western powers; she therefore rejects them. 
The Czar infinitely regrets that he has been unable 
to accept the last overtures made by Austria. 
He considers that he has made every concession I 
compatible with the honor of Russia, and it 
| 
only remains for him to do the same as his ene- 
; 
mies; that is to try the eventualties of war in 
; 
order to arrive at somesolid basis of negotiation. 
The Czar has directed his"General-in-Chief to 
\ 
pass the Pruth with his troops from stratogic 
motives, and Russia will keep on the defensive 
within the frontier until more equitable condi-
tions are oflered to him. 
He will avoid increas-
ing the complications of the war ; but he will re-
pel with the greatest energy all attacks upon him 
from whatever quarter they may proceed. 
The Western Powers have expressed them-
selves satisfied with Anstria's resolve to remain 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
for the present in armed neutrality. 
The Germanic Diet resumed its sittings on the 
14th which the Prussian representative informed 
the Western Powers will in future remain strictly 
neutral. 
FRANCE.—The military exercises continued at 
Boulogne. 
On the 13th, the Emperor reviewed 
10,000 men in camp at Amblerense. 
On the 
14th, a grand sham battle was enacted. 
An in-
vading army of 40,000 men advanced from St, 
Omer to attack Boulogne. 
They were met by 
the army of defence, 40,000 strong, and after 
immense display of fire and smoke, Boulogne was 
supposed to be taken. 
On the 16th, the Em-
peror returned to France. 
A loan of 400,000,000 francs is proposed. 
The French Minister has been recalled from 
Berlin and Ferdinand Barrot appointed in his 
place. 
The Island of Aix, at the north of the Cha-
certe, is assigned as the residence of the Russian 
prisoners. 
The cholera was rapidly abating in Paris. 
SPAIN.—The intelligence from Madrid is im-
portant. 
The Repuplican party is extremely 
active, and new out-breaks are considered inevit-
able. 
It has been discovered that republican-
ism has been extensively organized, and was 
almost ready for action throughout Spain. 
The 
programme of the intended movement is clandes-
tienly circulated. 
The Marquis of Albaida, 
recognized as the head of the movement, has 
gone into concealment, the better to direct the 
secret operation. 
Public opinion connects Mr. 
Soule's absence wilh the same cause. 
Queen Christiana has arrived at Lisbon. 
She 
will embark at Oronto for France. 
The Count de Monte Molino has issued a cir-
cular to the Carlists, advising them to remain 
quiet. 
®lje SUtoent fjeralb. 
BOSTON, OCTOBER 7, 1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give i, 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored am 
hi3 truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, ii 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XLIX. 
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, 
And their queens thy nursing mothers : 
They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, 
And lick up the dust of thy feet; 
And thou shalt know that I am the Lord: 
For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.— v. 23. 
This reads in the margin, kings shall be thy 
" nourishers," and their " princesses " thy nurs-
ing mothers—illustrative of the royal favor which 
should be extended to the cause of Christ under 
the Gentile dispensation—which has been fulfilled 
in the remarkable favor which many crowned heads 
have shown to it. 
"Their bowing down with faces towards the 
earth, and lickingup the dust, is put by substitu-
tion for evidence of the regard which they should 
manifest for Zion—the figure being taken from 
the expressions of submission and homage customa-
ry in the east. 
When Joseph's brethren were in-
troduced to him, (Gen. 42:6) " they bowed down 
themselves to him with their faces to the earth.'' 
The king of Persia admitted no one to their pres 
ence without exacting this expression of reverance. 
The insolence of eastern monarchs to conquered 
princes, and the submission of the latter, is aston-
ishing. 
Mr. Ilarmes, Obs. 2:43. gives the fol 
lowing instance of it from D'Herbelot;—" This 
prince threw himself one day on the ground, and 
kissed the prints that his victorious enemy's horse 
had made there ; reciting some verses in Persian, 
which he had composed, to that effect:— 
" The mark that the foot of your horse has left 
upon the dust, serves me now for a crown. 
" The ring, which I wear as a badge of my 
slavery, is becoming my richest ornament. 
"While I shall have the happiness to kiss the 
dust of your feet, I shall think that fortune fa-
vours, me with its tenderest caresses, and its sweet-
est kisses." 
The enemies, as well as the friends of God are 
alike to bow before him; 
for (Psa. 72,9-11.) 
" They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before 
him ; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 
Yea. 
all kings shall fall down before him : all nations 
shall serve him." 
As an illustration of this, Wm. Lowth alludes 
" to the great honor and respect, paid by the first 
Christian emperors and empresses to the bishops 
ot the Church—always bowing down their heads 
to them when they desired their blessing." 
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive de-
livered ?—v. 24. 
This is asked in view of the fact that Jerusalem 
is still in bondage with her children, and the com-
parative hopelessness, to all human appearance 
of 
their deliverance—the lawful captive being 
in the margin, " the captivity of the just." 
Hope-
less as this might seem, God promises deliverance : 
But thus saith the Lord, 
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, 
And the prey of the terrible be delivered : 
For I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will 
save thy cl-vdren.—v. 25. 
Instead of " captives," in the margin, it is the 
" captivity " of the mighty that is to be " taken 
away "—that term being a metaphor expressive of 
its termination. 
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; 
And they shall be drunken wilh their own blood, as with sweet 
wine: 
And al) flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour 
And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.—v. 26. 
Their being fed with their own flesh, &c., is a 
substitution to illustrate that the oppressors of 
Zion will work out their own destruction,—as in 
the case of Manassah and Ephiram. 
Isa. 9:19, 20, 
—" Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the 
land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel 
of the fire : no man shall spare his brother. 
And 
he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry : 
and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall 
not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the 
flesh of his own arm." Rev. 16:6.—"For they have 
shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou 
hast given them blood to drink ; for they are wor-
thy." 
The sovereignty of Jehovah will be vindicated by 
the destruction of the enemies of Zion, and thus all 
will know that he is God. 
Psa. 9:16—The Lord 
is known by the judgment which he executeth." 
CHAPTER L. 
Thus saith the Lord, 
Where is the bill of thy mother's divorcement, whom I have put 
away ? 
Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you ? 
Behold, for, your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, 
And for your transgressions is your mother put away. 
—v. 1. 
Under the Jewish law, husbands sometimes put 
away their wives for slight causes. 
The command 
was, (Deut. 24:1,2.) If " she finds no favor in his 
eyes,. . . then let him write her a bill of divorce-
ment, and give it in her hand, and eend her out of his 
house; and when she is departed out of his house, 
she may go and be another man's wife. " This was. 
only suffered because of the hardness of their hearts. 
See Matt. 19:8. 
Fathers oppressed with debt, 
often sold their children, who became free again 
after six years service, (Ex. 21:2,7.) 
Creditors 
also could seize the.children of their unfortunate 
debtors, as in the case of the woman in 2. K. 4:1, 
who said to Elisha, " Thy servant my husband is 
dead ; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear 
the Lord ; and the creditor is come to take unto 
him my two sons to be bondman." 
And in the 
parable we read, (Matt. 18:25,) " Forasmuch as 
he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be 
sold, and his wife and children, and all that he 
had. and payment to be made." 
It was said to the Jews, (65:15,) "Ye shall leave 
your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the 
Lord shall slay thee and call his servants by an-
other name "—which was fulfilled when, (Acts 11: 
26.) " the disciples were called Christians first in 
Antioch." 
Because they would reject the Saviour, 
he said to the Jews, (Matt. 21:43,) " The kingdom 
of God shall be taken from you, and given to a 
nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." 
This 
withdrawal of God's special favor from the Jewish 
nation, left their house desolate ; and their 
rela-
tion to him then is illustrated by the substitution 
of a woman divorced from her husband, her chil-
dren being sold into bondage. 
That God had not 
put them away for any slight cause, is shown by 
the reason given for the act: it being because of 
their transgressions—for a statement of which the 
bill of divorcement is put by substitution. 
Nor 
had God put them away because of any claims of 
other on him which he could not otherwise satisfy ; 
for the act of sale was their own. 
It was because 
of their own iniquities—their selling themselves, 
being a substitution for their course of action which 
had plunged them into their fallen condition. 
He 
then adds: 
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man ? 
When 1 called, was there none to answer ? 
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem ? or have I no 
power to deliver i 
Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilder-
iJess: 
Their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their cov-
ering.— vs. 2,3. 
The Saviour, (John 1:11.) " came unto his own 
and his own received him not." 
Foreseeing this, 
Jehovah enquires why there was none to receive 
him ]—why ther.e was none to answer when he 
called to them 1 
It was because of this that they 
were to be slain, and God's chosen called by an-
other name ; for he said, (Isa. 6512.) " Therefore 
will 1 number you to the sword, and ye shall all 
bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, 
ye did not answer ; when I spake, ye did not hear, 
but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that 
wherein 1 delighted, not." 
In like manner they did not hear the prophets 
whom he sent to them : (Jer. 35:15.) " I have sent 
also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising 
up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now 
every man from his evil way, and amend your do-
ings, and go not after other gods to serve them, 
and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given 
to you and to your fathers : but ye have not in-
clined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." 
This refusal to hear God's messengers, is illus-
trated by the Saviour in the parable of the house-
holder, (Matt. 21:33-41,) who "planted a vine-
yard, and hedged it round about, and digged a 
wine-prees in it, and built a tower, and let it out 
to husbandmen, and went into a far country : and 
when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his 
servants to the husbandmen, that they might re-
ceive the fruits of it. 
And the husbandmen took 
his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and 
stoned another. 
Again he sent other servants 
more than the first: and they did unto them like-
wise. 
But last of all, he sent unto them his son, 
saying, They will reverence my son. 
But when 
the husbandmen saw the son, they said among 
themselves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, 
and* let us seize on his inheritance. 
And they 
caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and 
slew him. 
When the lord therefore of the vine-
yard cometh, what will he do unto those husband-
men ? They say unto him, He will miserably de-
stroy those wicked men, and will let out his vine-
yard unro other husbandmen, which shall render 
him the fruits in their seasons." 
As God had thus called to them, and given them 
opportunity to return to him, it was their own 
fault that they were Dot delivered ; and it was not 
because God had no power to deliver. 
The short-
ening of the hand, i. e., by cutting it off, is put by 
substitution for a weakening of power ; which can-
not be changed to God, as he shows by calling to 
their remembrance the miracles which had effected 
their deliverance in former times:—when, (Psa. 
106:9,) " He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was 
dried up : so he led them through the depths as 
through the wilderness; "—when, the waters of 
the river Jordan (Josh. 3:16,) " stood and rose up 
upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is 
beside Zaretan ; and those that came down toward 
the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and 
were cut off: and the people passed over right 
against Jericho ;"—when, the waters of the river 
Nile were turned to blood,(Ex. 8:21.) so that, 
"the fish that was in the river died;"—and 
when at the command of Jehovah, (Ex. 10:22.) 
" Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, 
and there was a thick darkness in all the land 
of Egypt three days." 
His power to deliver 
could not be doubted when such acts had demon-
strated his omnipotence. 
There are metaphors in the expression : I 
" clothe " the heavens, and in denominating the 
darkness with which he covered it " sackcloth," 
illustrative of the intensity of the darkness which 
he caused. 
LETTER FROM L. D. MANSFIELD. 
BRO. HIMES :—Your paper still reaches me week-
ly and keeps me apprised of your labors in the 
great field of Christian reform. 
Your life for the 
last ten or twelve years, has indeed been one of 
toil and trial, in which sunshine and shade have 
rapidly alternated, though the latter has for the 
most part spread its curtain over you. 
The con-
sciousness of holding to the truth, and of being 
backed by the word of God, could alone compen-
6ate the sacrifice which you have been called to 
make; for no paltry emoluments of your business 
could make amends for the loss of reputation—of 
personal ease—and friends, which you well under-
stand. 
And the most cutting of all things, is to 
be despised, on account of the course pursued by 
others who are identified with you in the public 
mind, but who do not sympathize with nor coop-
erate heartily in the same cause. 
We can easily 
bear any reproach which falls upon us for our 
faith in God's word,—and our labors in its behalf; 
but it is much more dangerous to Christian equi-
nimity, to be reproached for doctrines which are 
opposite to our convictions of truth, and for the con-
duct of those whose course is as odious to ua as to 
othefs. 
It is regarded by some as a mark of extra-
ordinary sanctity to be stolidly indifferent to tbe 
good opinion or bad opinion of the Christian world 
without us : but it seems to me that, whether it 
be a mark of piety or not, depends upon other con-
siderations. 
If a man is indifferent to his reputa-
tion because he loves Jesus so well that he is will-
ing to court all loss for his sake, then he is right, 
and his sacrifice of reputation is a secret incense 
before God. 
But if on the other hand, the humility 
is a " voluntary humility "—" vainly puffed up 
with a fleshy mind "—or at the same time—which 
sacrifices the good opinion of the mass, in order to 
be a dmi-god 
with the few, it will have no other 
reward than that which it seeks, as our Lord Jesus 
said of the Pharisees—" Verily I say unto you they 
have their reward." 
The fanaticism of the Rom-
ish church instructs us most abundantly on the 
subjectof" Voluntary humility." 
From it we learn 
that masters of pride and assumption, have now 
the part of the meanest and most abject orders of 
the church. 
I am not unaware that Christians have never suf-
fered, in their true character, but that it has been 
almost uniformly the devil's plan to fasten some 
false covering upon the back of the saint and re-
present him in this pretended character and not in 
his real one. 
In the early ages of the church 
Christians were represented by the pagans as guilty 
of the most unnatural and monstrous crimes ; their 
nightly meetings were reported to be designed for 
the vilest of purposes. 
In this character they 
were hunted down and murdered like wild beasts. 
But I believe it has never been shown that there 
was any truth in these allegations, or that any 
professed Christian assembly of those times met 
for any other than consistant Worship or some 
equally legitimate purpose. 
Let us endeavor, that if we suffer we also suffer 
for " well doing." 
During my visit to Jefferson county, I had op-
portunity to preach several times. I had large au-
diences, while I spoke upon our present position 
on the advent question. 
I had a kind and respect-
ful hearing in public, and met several ministers of 
the gospel whom 1 formerly knew, and conversed 
with them long and pleasantly in respect to the 
personal reign of Christ, the New Earth, and the 
signs of its nearness. 
I found much candor and 
no disposition to denounce these views as either 
dangerous or fanatical, and some of them expressed 
a determination to give these topics more attention. 
The Lord bless them in their search for truth. 
The advent doctrine is neither fanciful nor ex-
travagent, but is sound, plain, comprehensible, 
beautiful, harmonious and glorious, and is the 
common property of the church. 
This we should 
maintain, and in all our public aud private labors 
should endeavor to convince the church that these 
doctrines are the legitimate property of the whole 
church of God, and that they belong to no sect or 
party, but to " the household of faith." 
Let our labors be directed more to the learning 
of the church universal with the truth, and the 
showing of the sinner what is the birthright of-
fered him, than to the organization of a sect or the 
expansion of its limits. 
Not that I would advise the neglect of those 
brethren and sisters grouped into churches all over 
the land, but that we ought to work outward as 
much as possible, and make Christians feel that 
these doctrines, plainly taught in the Bible, belong 
to them, and they must share in their reproach, as 
well as in their glory. 
At this point I am remind-
ed to ask a question which has been frequently 
suggested to my mind, i. e., whether the design of 
God in the advent movement, is to have this doc-
trine proclaimed alone, as a 
SPECIAL MESSAGE, or is 
it to take the place of the errors which have pre-
vailed in the church on these questions, and to be 
preached in connection with all practical doctrines 1 
For instance, heaven, death, the temporal mil-
lennium and spiritual reign, have been motives to 
the church, by which the practical duties of the 
Christian's life have been enforced and encouraged. 
Now, is the design of God that we should .substi-
tute the present coming—personal reign of Christ 
—the resurrection—the new heaven and earth-
in the place of the former views as motives to holi-
ness in all the walks of life—or did he design to 
have the advent doctrine proclaimed as a MESSAGE 
to unsettle all the relations of life—create an in-
tense excitement and call together in a body all bis 
true disciples with the announcement of his com-
ing? 
Will you please tell me which of these views is 
the true one! 
1 have resigned the care of the church in For-
syth-street and now only supply them occasionally. 
Brother Whiting, brother Daniels, and othera have 
aided them some of late. 
I am for the present 
aiding one of the great reforms of the day with my 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
317 1 
pen, but I shall preach the gospel as I have oppor-
tunity in the mean time. 
The 
Lord bless you is 
my prayer. 
Yours, 
L. D. 
MANSFIELD. 
New York, Sept. 26th, 1854. 
In reply to the question of brother Mansfield 1 
would say that I do not suppose it to be in accord-
ance with the mind of God that the near coming of 
Christ should be proclaimed alone, or unaccom-
panied by other truths. 
Said the Saviour, (Matt 
4:4,)—" It is written, Man shall not live by bread 
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God." 
It is no less true now, than 
when it wasfirst uttered by the spirit, as in 2 Tim. 
3:16, 17, that " all Scripture is given by inspira-
tion of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re-
proof, for correction, for instruction in righteous-
ness: that the man of God may be perfect, thorough-
ly furnished unto all gool works." And also Rom. 
15:4, that " whatsoever things were written afore-
time, were written for our learning," as well as 
for those who'^have gone before,'' that we through 
patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have 
hope." 
Therefore (Matt. 13:52,) " every Scribe 
which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is 
like unto a man that is an householder, which 
bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and 
old"—dispensing 
to each member of the household 
his portion of meat in its appropriate season. 
I do not believe that the doctrine of the Advent is 
to be preached as a substitute for other truth ; for 
no truth should be withheld which is revealed as 
a motive of duty. 
But that which is erroneous 
and unscriptural should be withheld, and the proc-
lamation of truth should be made a substitute for 
that of error. When however a truth, like the per-
sonal and pre-millennial advent, the resurrection 
of the body &c., has been overlooked and forgotten 
or measurably so, to resuscitate it and give it its 
place among other truths,—it is often necessary 
to make it for a time correspondingly more promi-
nent than kindred truths. 
As in the wise economy 
bf God, any one can better accomplish any specific 
work by devoting himself exclusively to it, whether 
it be in any branch of mechanics, or in ethics, so 
God has apparently apportioned the work of his 
vineyard among individuals and bodies of believers 
according to the fitness of each for the use and end 
to which God designs him. 
As the body is one and 
hath many members, so has the church : and as 
the hand or foot cannot say to any other member 
" I have no need of thee," so may not those who 
fill one position in the church of God lightly esteem 
those who occupy other positions. 
As " God hath 
set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily 
prophets, thirdly teachers" &e., as when he gave 
his gifts to the church, he gave to 
some, apos-
tles ; and some, prophets ; and some evangelists ; 
and some, pastors and teachers,"—this variety oi 
gifts was for the better perfecting of the saints, for 
the work ot the ministry, for the edefying of the 
body of Christ." 
And it is not contrary to, but 
in accordance with the same divine economy to fit 
different men and associations of men, to make 
known more effectually specific truths. 
The bold 
and venturesome Peter was just fitted for the work 
to which God assigned him. 
The great apostle to 
the Gentiles, by his talents and erudition was pe-
culiarly fitted for his mission in Athens, Rome, 
and the other refined cities of the heathen. 
Luther 
was commissioned to protest against the errors of 
Papacy ; and Calvin, Wesley, and Whitfield were 
peculiarly adapted to their several fields of duty. 
Individuals, like Wilberforce and others, seem to 
have been providentially fitted to protest 
against 
ti e sin of slavery, and others by devoting them-
selves specifically to the cause of temperance have 
been enabled to work wonders in arresting the tide 
of intemperance. 
It is not therefore surprising if 
God should use individuals, or even societies for 
the restoration of any truth. 
Without a specific 
effort, the doctrine of the personal advent would 
hardly have elicited any attention. 
There has 
therefore been a necessity laid on some that 
they 
preach it, and that as it were specifically. 
As to the manner ot ita preaching. I do not think 
it should be preached for the purpose of producing 
an excitement, or for unsettling any of the rela-
tions of life. 
More or less excitement, however, 
has attended all aggressive Christian effort, whether 
it be in the days of the apostles, the times of Luther 
or the present—whether Paul preached Jesus and 
the lesurrection ; Stephen, that they had crucified 
the Just One; Luther, that Rome was the mys-
tic Babylon ; or Dr Ilewett, that drunkenness will 
be shut out from the kingdom of God. 
There were 
often great uproars consequent upon the preaching 
of the gospel by the apostles, and they were ac-
cused of turning the world up side down ; and 
therefore no one who preaches any truth may hope 
to avoid all excitement respecting it. 
If he has 
the truth, he should not shrink from proclaiming 
it because it may be opposed, for all the evil of 
opposition to truth, is to be attributed to those 
who oppose, and not to its advocates.' If however 
any advocate it in a boisterous, indecorus, or un-
dignified manner, they alone are to blame if their 
efforts tend to produce confusion, instead of good 
results. 
Nor is the formation of new ecclesiastical rela-
tions to be sought for as an end. 
He that preaches 
any truth, should do so for the purpose of bene-
fitting those to whom he preaches. 
The desire to 
make proselytes should not actuate him. 
If how-
ever in the providence of God new ecclesiastical 
relations arise, they may become subservient to 
the divine end. 
In the early proclamation of the 
doctrine of the advent, nothing was further from 
the thoughts of its advocates than the raising up 
of advent churches. 
It was supposed that a doc-
trine so scriptural and apostolic, would, if not re-
ceived, not be opposed with any virulence. 
In 
many communities such has been its reception, in 
others, the opposition to it has been such that the 
continuance of oldjrelations would have been as un-
pleasant as would the continuance together of the 
herdsmen of Abraham and .Lot. 
We read 
that 
" God estteth the solitary in families," and this is 
as true ecclesiastically, as it is socially. 
All true 
churches are different ecclesiastical families, and 
should dwell together with all neighborly good feel-
ing. . All individuals would not be at home in the 
same family, nor would Christians of opposite ten-
ets assimilate together as naturally as those of like 
peculiarities. 
Those of different temperaments al-
8) naturally assimilate differently; and I know of 
no better way than for Christians to assimilate 
with each other according to their natural affini-
tives ; for as different elements are chemically at-
tracted and repelled so are we socially intellectual-
ly and spiritually. 
On this principle I justify the 
organization of Advent churches, and also the spe-
cific work we still have to do. 
THE HEBREW NEW YEAR. 
THE Jewish feast of the New-Year commenced 
on Friday night, the evening of Sept. 22d, with the 
prescribed formalities. 
This festival is mentioned 
in Leviticus 23:24, as the day of the " memorial 
of the blowing of the trumpet," being intended as 
a type ot the grand day when the trumpet 
shall 
sound to gather the remnant of Israel, though in 
accordance *with Rabbinical teachings the day is 
celebrated as the anniversary of the Creation of 
the World. 
In the Talmud several passages of 
Scripture are cited to show that this festival is 
not only the beginning ot the year, but also the day 
of memorial in heaven : that our God judges the 
righteous and the wicked of this world, and that, 
after the balancing of every man's good and bad 
works, he whose good deeds outweigh the bad, has 
his name immediately recorded in the Book of Life, 
and he whose sins exceed his good works is set 
down in the Book of Death; also, that there is 
another record for those of a middle state which is 
left open until the day of atonement—nine days 
after New-Year, when it is sealed—those who have 
in the meantime repented being recorded in the 
Book of Life. 
In one of the solemn prayers of this 
festival, it is related that on this day the great 
trumpet is blown in heaven, at which even the 
angels tremble, every man 
receives his judge-
ment ; and it is recorded how many during the 
following year shall be born and how many shall 
die ; also the manner of every person's death,wheth-
er by war, pestilence, or otherwise; in fine, the 
condition of every person for the ensuing year is 
recorded, and on the evening of the Atonement Day 
all the records are sealed ; but that 
repentance, 
supplication and charity will annul the adverse de-
crees. 
The festival of the New-Year is celebrated 
for two days, 1st and 2d of the month Tisri. 
The 
first and second evenings differ little from the 
ordinary Sabbath, expect that the prayers 
are 
varied to suit the occasion and at the conclusion 
of the services the people congratulate each other 
in Hebrew phrase, meaning—"May you be recorded 
and sealed for a happy year." 
Mmorning services 
generally continue until noon, some of the more 
devout being dressed in a white cap and toga, over 
which they throw the four-cornered scarf mentioned 
in Numbers 15:37. 
After prayers portions of the 
Pentateuch and of the Haphtorah are read, on the j 
first day Genesis 21 and 1 Samuel 1, and on the j 
second day Genesis 22, and Jeremiah 31. 
After ! 
the reading of the law, one of the Rabbis sounds 
on a ram's horn trumpet a long note, followed by 
broken«sounds and then a tremendous blast; and , 
on the instant eighteen of the notes of the first kind ; 
and six of each of the others are given, to remind ' 
men of the day when the trumpet shall awake the 
dead, and when Satan will be confounded by the ! 
coming of the Messiah. 
This rite is introduced by j 
a prayer that God may send holy angels to justify j 
Israel before His holy throne, and terrify Satan j 
from traducing the Jews, and that God would rc- j 
member his convenants with the patriarchs. 
The 
15th verse of the 81st Psalm is then chimed; after 
which comes the sermon, prayers and hymns, dur-
ing which the trumpet is sounded three times at4 
brief intervals, the congregation repeating at each 
time, " On this day was the world created ; to-day 
is the day of judgement, when all beings, either as 
childern, or as servants, are judged ; if Thou judge-
est us as a father hath mercy upon his children ; 
have mercy upon us as a father hath mercy upon 
his children ; if we are judged as servants, we turn 
our eyes to Thee till Thou wilt pardon us." 
About 
the close of the services those who are descended 
from the family of priests ascend the steps before 
the ark, where the rolls of the Pentuteuch are 
kept, and pronounce the priestly blessing directed 
in the 6th chapter of Numbers. 
Before this cere-
mony, the priests pluck off their shoes, and their 
hands are washed by some of the tribe of Levi. 
When they are prepared to give the blessing, the 
reader first pronounces every word of the blessing 
separately, and then it is chanted by priests, while 
the congregation at every word repeat verses of the 
scripture containing that Avord. 
Then a hymn of 
glory is chanted, and the doors of the ark are 
opened, which is symbolical of the opening of the 
gates of heaven to receive the prayers of mortals 
At the conclusion of the services thirty notes are 
sounded on the trumpet, and a hymn of thirteen 
lines founded on the thirteen creeds of Israel, is 
sung. 
The ten days from New-Year to the Day of Atone-
ment, both inclusive, are called the ten days ot 
penitance. 
On these days it is ordered to repeat 
thirty-nine short supplications, every one com 
mencing with the words, "Our Father and King.' 
On the Sabbath these are omitted, it is decreed in 
the Mishna that the Sabbath must not be a day for 
supplication. 
N. Y. Tribune. 
NOTE. 
The Jews had two dates for the com-
mencement of the New-Year—the 
ecclesiastical, 
which commenced with the new moon next pro-
ceeding the ripening of the barley harvest, and 
the civil year which began with the seventh month 
of th3 second year. 
The Jewish commencement of 
their civil year, is therefore their seventh month 
according to the Rabbinical reckoning. 
The Jews in this city kept their feast of Taber-
nacles, which is always held on the 10th day of 
their seventh month, on Tuesday the 3d inst. 
FURTHER FOREIGN NEWS' 
THE steamship America from Liverpool via. Hali-
fax, reached this port at 1 1-2 A.M., Saturday 
Sep. 30th. 
The date of papers by this arrival are 
to the 16th from Liverpool, and to the 15th from 
London. -
The harvest was nearly completed in Great Brit-
ain ; the only districts in which there was any con-
siderable quantity of corn still out were situate in 
some of the countries of Scotland. 
The weather 
had continued 
fine. 
The Dumfries Courier 
states 
that 60 lbs. per bushel for wheat, 50 lbs. per bus-
hel for oats, have generaly been considered a kind 
of standard or medium weight between the heavier 
and lighter qualities ; and it mentions, as a speci-
men of the present crop, that at last week's Had-
dington market, samples of new grain were shown 
of the following extraordinary weights :—Wheat, 
6511)8. per bushel; barley, 58 1-2 lbs. per bushel ; 
and oats, 48 lbs. per bushel. 
The chorera is raging in many districts in Great 
Britain, Ireland, and the continent. 
In 
London 
the disease appears to be very virulent, for in the 
week ending Saturday last, 5050 persons died ot 
cholera and 276 of diarrhoea, the total number of 
deaths in London for the week being 3413, or 2165 
more than have on an average died in the corres-
ponding week of former years. 
In the last ten 
weeks, during which the edidemic has been hang-
ing over the metropolis, 9120 lives have been lost. 
The disease is on the increase in Liverpool; but 
as in other places, the greatest mortality prevails 
in the most crowded and filthy districts. 
BALTIC FLEETS.—The report of the 
premature 
return of Sir Charles Napier is denied, in toto, by 
Morning Chronicle, and other journals of credit. 
The Times in noticing the same report expresses 
an anxious hope that the rumor may not be true, 
as such a resolution would be unnecessary, ill-
timed, and calculated both to damage the cause ot 
the Ailles, and serve that of the Russians. It says : 
" We have just learned our strength, and the 
enemy's weakness-, the Allies have been encouraged, 
and the Russian disheartened. 
After believing 
somewhat too implicity in the imputed strength of 
granite 'o -tifications, we have just seen this pursua-
sion demolished by the test of experiment. 
The 
stone forts on which Russia relies have been shown 
to be no match for the 
floating 
batteries which 
represent the power of France and England. * * * 
In a contest which was a trial of staftength between 
offensive and defensive systems, that of the de-
fence has proved the weaker, and nothing there-
fore could seem more impolitic than that the as-
sailants should at this very conjuncture relinquish 
the advantages obtained. * 
* # Sweaborg or 
Cronstadt, and not Spithead, should now be the 
destination of Sir Charles Napier." 
The Moniteur de h Flotte (a French naval jour-
nal) says: 
" The report of the arrival of the French Baltic 
squadron to Cherbourg next month, if not entirely 
groundless, is at least premature, as there is noth-
ing official known on the subject. 
England her-
self is undecided as to what she will do with her 
ships. 
The sailing vessels are recalled, but the 
steamers have received no such orders. 
Probably 
the latter will retire only by degrees, according as 
they shall be driven out by the ice, and this hap-
pens in some seasons earlier than others ; besides, 
we may be certain that as long as an English ship 
remains in the Baltic, we shall see a French ves-
sel sharing the same fatigues and dangers." 
THE WAR IN ASIA.—The followiig report requires 
authentication : 
VIENNA, Sept. 
14. 
By a telegraph 
despatch 
which has reached this city, we learn that Schamyl 
has gained a brilliant victory over the Russian 
forces in the vicinity of Tiflis. 
The Russians lost many men, 7 guns, 300 tents, 
and all their baggage, with many horses and wag-
ons. 
' 
Obituary. 
DIED in this city, on Sunday morning the 1st 
inst, at the residence of his son in law, G. F. 
Moore, brother 
LEWIS HERSEY, at the age of 59 
years. 
Bro. Hersey was early and favorably known to 
believers in the doctrine of the Second 
Advent, 
which he embraced at an early period of Mr. Mil-
ler's labors in Boston, and to advance which he 
aided much with his pen. 
He was one of the 
night watch of the city, and issued his articles in 
an occasional sheet called the "Watchman's Warn-
ing." 
His simple and unostentatious life the sin-
cerity of his character, his clearness of intellect, 
his general good judgement and practical common 
sense, and the warmth of his social feelings, con-
nected with an humble and unaffected piety, great-
ly endeared him to all who knew his worth. 
His 
disease was marasmus, a gradual pining away, be-
fore which he gradually wasted for the last two 
years. He died in the hope ofa blessed resurrection 
at the near appearing of Christ, and met the enemy 
in peace. 
His funeral was attended on the 4th 
inst. by the publisher of this paper. 
He leaves a widow, and several children who 
are comfortably settled in life, who made all need 
f'ul provision for him during his declining years. 
NEW TRACTS.—We shall publish the following 
tracts soon : 
COUNSELS TO YOUNG 
DISCIPLES. 
THE 
CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 
The First Day of the 
Week. 
THE DELUGE. 
We shall soon publish several choice pieces of 
music with hymns, suited to the wants of the 
churches. 
Any persons who have choice hymns, 
or tunes, which they desire to have 
published, 
will please send them in. 
We will give any such 
that may be suitable, and have merit. 
MY JOURNAL 
MANY very interesting incidents occurred during 
my late tour in Center and Elk counties in Penn-
sylvania, which I intended to record-. 
But I am 
so pressed with cares and imperitive duties that I 
must omit them now. 
I only add a word in refer-
ence to brother Gates, who rendered us much aid 
in our meetings. 
He is now located in Lycoming 
county, Pa. 
Ho has commenced a new interest 
there, a circuit has been arranged on which he 
will travel regularly and build up churches. 
He 
has already several good congregations, that prom-
ise permanence. 
Brother Litch went with 
him 
from the camp-meeting in Marsh Creek, to aid in 
his work, from whom we hope to hear good results. 
Brother Gates and his family are pleasantly located 
and have before them prospects of usefulness. 
May the Lord of the vineyard give them all suc-
cess. 
They have taken the best and only course 
for real usefulness in the cause of our common 
Lord. 
TUESDAY, August 5th.—I 
returned home at half 
past 4 P.M., and left the next morning at 7 o'clock 
in company with brother Osier, for our appoint-
ment at Loudon Ridge, N. II. 
We arrived in sea-
son for the afternoon service, and were cordially 
greeted by a goodly company of the faithful and 
true hearted friends of the cause. 
This meeting was called for two objects. 
First, 
as a religious one, having in view the comforting 
of the saints in their present triel condition, and 
the conversion of souls. 
Secondly, to learn the 
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true condi tion*of the cause, and consult together 
on the best method of " setting in order things 
that are wanting." 
The representation of the brethren was mucb(,manjfe8ted to hear more on the subject of our faith. 
greater than we had expected. 
And the harmony 
of feeling and views were of a most encouraging 
character. 
We entered at once on the work of 
revival, in which there was a unanimous response. 
The first service was deeply interesting, all seemed 
to drink into one spirit. 
At the close of the de-
votional exercises 1 stated what 1 regarded as the 
true objects of the Conference, to which all res-
ponded, when it was organized by the appointment 
of Elder Peter Clark, Moderator, 
and Elder J. 
Harvey, assistant, Elder T. M. Preble, Clerk. 
We 
held devotional meetings for preaching and prayer 
at the usual hours of meeting, and business was 
attended to at the close of each service. 
Our busi-
ness meetings were entirely harmonious. 
The re-
ports from the churches were interesting, and most 
of an encouraging character. 
In the business 
meetings the subject of church order was taken up, 
and fully discussed. 
All appeared to be satisfied 
with what they had endured on account of the anti-
church order elements. 
A resolution was unani-
mously agreed to, that the time had come for the 
churches to adopt and carry out in good faith the 
order and discipline laid down by Christ and the 
apostles. 
Our readers will soon have the full re-
port by the Clerk. 
The religious interest increased in every meet-
ing to the end. 
On the first evening an intelligent 
young lady was converted. 
It was an interesting 
case and gave a thrill of joy to the saints. 
Her 
sister, (a twin) was also awakened, and converted 
afterwards. 
It was very obvious that a large 
number were deeply convicted of sin. 
But up to 
Sunday night there was no breaking down, though 
all seemed to be ripe. 
During the week, Elders Osier, W. Burnham and 
others assisted in the preaching, which gave great 
interest to the meeting ; on the Sabbath I had to 
speak during the day. 
We had very large attend-
ance, and the best attention. 
God gave me good 
liberty in showing to the people the plan of salva-
tion from the second chapter of the Acts, and the 
inheritance of the saints from 2 Peter 3d chapter. 
I baptised the twins, at the close of the P.M. service. 
We had a glorious time at the water. 
The even-
ing meeting was very well attended. 
There were 
many who were very deeply impressed, but there 
was no breaking down on that evening. 
But such 
was the interest at the close, that brother Preble, 
appointed a meeting for the next day, of which a 
friend in writing us says :—" 1 would say with 
deep feelings of gratitude that the result of our 
meeting yesterday exceeded our most sanguine ex-
pectations. 
There was a deep labor on the part 
of brethren and sisters ; backsliders and sinners 
came to the altar and in agonizing prayer peti-
tioned the throne of grace for themselves. 
The 
prospects are so good for a glorious revival that 
brother Preble has concluded to return next week 
and hold a series of meetings." 
Well, God be 
praised. 
FRIDAY, August 8.—Brother Harvey had made 
an appointment for me at Pittsfield, which I filled, 
and had a good audience, and an excellent time. 
The cause there has been saved from distraction 
by the judicious labors of Elders Harvey and Mor-
rill. 
I returned home August 11, to prepare for 
the camp-meeting in Champlain. 
Christ in baptism " two happy converts. 
To say 
the least of that people strong prejudice was re-
moved from many minds, and an ardent desire was 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the Herald. 
LETTER FROM SAMUEL, 
CHAPMAN. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—After the date of my last, (Kirk-
ville, Mo., June 7,) 1 remained in that vicinity 
one week longer. 
Preached at East Fork, 12 miles 
south ot Kirkville, five times, where we had a good 
hearing. 
On the Sabbath it was said that our 
congregation was the largest ever convened in that 
community on any occasion whatever. 
After oc-
cupying two hours in the morning, showing that 
this earth was to be the final abode of the saints 
to which the whole congregation listened with un 
divided attention ; hundreds accompanied us to the 
creek where I had the pleasure of " burying with 
But we had to return on the 12th to meet our en-
gagement in Kirkville. 
Preached that evening to 
a deeply interested congregation on the " bur-
dens " of the prophets. 
Several expressed a wish 
to receive baptism at our hands, but there being 
no water of sufficient depth near the village, and be-
ing anxious to leave the next morning for this State, 
I left that delightful service with the " Christian " 
minister, who with his people generally treated us 
with Christian courtesy, and the doctrine we teach 
with much respect. 
All classes, with few individ-
ual exceptions manifested deep regret that we 
could remain with them no longer. 
By driving hard wo crossed the Mississippi at 
Warsaw on the 14th in time to arrive at brother 
Fry's on Bear Creek at 12 o'clock that night. 
The 
next day, June 15th, met brother Burnham and 
Morgan at St. Albans where they were holding a 
series of meetings. 
Brother B. I had never before 
seen, but knowing his former reputation through 
the Herald, and his friendly course toward you in 
your late trial with Wether, Needham and others, 
1 cherished much respect for the man, yet knowing 
him to be in " the time question " of '54,1 had 
fears that he might be ultra on the subject, and 
thereby effect much more evil than good provided 
the Lord should not come in '54. 
But in his first 
discourse he declared his faith, I think in these 
words, " Now I believe the Lord will come and 
that time will end this year, or in the early part 
of '55. 
But, mark I do not say I know this : but 
simply that I believe it, and will now Bhow you 
why I believe," &c. 
With such faith I was please^ 
with the position he took, and was prepared to 
listen attentively to his reasonings on the subject^ 
and although I do not profess to have adopted all 
his views, neither is my own mind changed in the 
least on the subject of the Lord's soon coming, for 
I have believed and constantly proclaimed his com-
ing " at the doors " for several years, especially 
since '48 when " the nations began to be angry " 
in a prominent sense, Rev. 11:18. 
When I speak 
of" at the doors " I do not mean to extend it to 
another generation by any means. 
Yet I am 
bound to say I was interested, and in some respect 
instructed on the word. 
Especially on the Jew 
question, wish all the Judaisers in the land had 
been present. 
The Crisis has considerable circu-
lation here, and hitherto I have in no wise exerted 
an influence against it. 
Its strenuousness on defi-
nite time I disapprove, but its spirit in the main I 
admire—am exceedingly sorry however that of 
late so much of its columns should be filled with 
the " Death question." 
Wherever this is pressed 
and made a.prominent theme, it is rightly 
named, 
for its tendency is death, to the life and power of 
pure religion in the soul. 
It has of late I am sor-
ry to say gained some foothold in this community 
and is doing much evil. 
I pray God that it may 
be continued here, if it must exist at all in my 
fields of labor. 
Since 1 entered the field as a mis-
sionary I have found no time to agitate that,- or 
any other distracting question, but my business 
has been to show the people that the Lord was 
soon coming and urge them without delay to pre-
pare to meet that solemn, awful and yet glorious 
event, and to " comfort the brethren with these 
words," 1 Thess. 4:13 to 18, and so I intend to 
complete my mission. 
But to conclude on this 
point I will say that in common with the brethren 
here at the West we hope the Lord will come this 
year, but if not, our faith will not be shaken in 
the least. 
For we 1 now that the prophetic period, 
the generation, the six thousand years from crea-
tion, &c., all terminate about now. 
The nations 
are not only " angry," but " are gathering to the 
battle of that great day."—Rev. 16:14. 
And the 
next thing before us is Christ will say (verse 15), 
Behold I come as a thief, blessed is he that 
watcheth and keepeth his garments," &c. 
We in-
tend therefore to be on our watch tower " wait-
ing," laboring, and 
" looking ". till our Lord 
comes. 
After brethren B. and M. left us, being anxious 
to see brother Litch (my spiritual father in the 
Advent faith), I remained and labored in this sec 
tion for several weeks. 
Preached to the St. Albans 
church several times, and witnessed an accession 
to their number of four prominent members. Spent 
about a week with the Bear Creek church. 
Dur 
ing which nine precious souls were added thereto 
A few of them had recently came from Indiana 
bringing their letters with them. 
But the greater 
part I am comforted in saying were my children 
in the gospel who heartily embraced the Saviour 
some three years since, but had never before iden 
tified themselves with the advent cause. 
One pre-
cious soul was manifestly converted during " that 
week," three of the number received baptism at 
our hands. 
But to God be all the glory, and 
praise. 
To our joy, brother Litch arrived July 
19th. 
He preached twice to good acceptance to 
the Bear Creek church. 
On the 20th commenced 
a series of meetings in the grove near the St. Al-
bans church, where the former meetings were held. 
Similar (i. e. good) attention was paid to the word. 
On the Sabbath (in both instances) it was sup-
posed the congregation would number from 4 to 5 
hundred. 
Brother L. was rather cautious than 
we could wish in urging upon the people the fact 
that the coming of the Lord was " at the door." 
And yet we were comforted and much instructed 
by his untiring labors in the community. 
With 
much pleasure I accompanied him over my field of 
labor some fifty miles south east of here. 
We ar-
rived at Walker's Neck, Brown country, on Mon-
day the 24th of July in time to gather a good con-
gregation at the house of brother S. C. Raymonds 
that evening, brother L. gave an animated dis-
course in which he declared his faith, that when 
this earth had ground under the curse 6000 years 
it would pass away, and the New Heaven and 
earth would be created, to which I most heartily 
responded, and followed him in a few words, show-
ing the congregation the mistake recently dis-
covered in our Bible chronology, (i. e. Bishop 
Usher's Chronology,) in the seeking of the judges," 
which being corrected, all may see with a single 
glance that this world is now about six thousand 
years old. 
And I can honestly add, Oh God let it 
burn. 
The next day, on our way to Pike county, 
we called at brother Calvin Twomley's, and had an 
interesting conversation with sister T. who was 
suffering extremely, and fast declining with cancers 
under each of her arms. 
She is now dead, and we 
trust sleeping in Jesus. 
Hope the Lord will bless 
and sustain brother T. 
Arrived at brother YV ins-
low's (Pike county,), that evening. Found him and 
the friends there looking for and glad to see us; the 
next day commenced a series of meetings with the 
McKees Creek church which continued five days ; 
brother Groves and others fitted up a fine grove for 
us ; there brethren, most of whom recently con-
verted from skepticism and infidelity were greatly 
comforted and instructed by the word ; that church 
is in a prosperous state, now numbering 23 mem-
bers. 
On Monday the 31st of July, brother L. left for 
home, since which I have felt his absence exceed-
ingly, the same as I did yours after you left me in 
S. last winter. 
I remained in that section some 
ten days after brother L. left. 
Visited the brethren 
in every neighborhood excepting C. and R., should 
have visited ^hose places with pleasure had we 
been cordially invited to do so. 
It was then and 
heretofore in our heart to do them good, but they 
seem to have rejected us, the Lord bless and save 
them is my prayer. 
In every place we had re-
freshing seasons. On the Sabbath August 5th, held 
a general meeting with the church at Walker's 
Neck, the friends were present from various direc-
tions for 5 to 15 miles distant, the season was de-
lightful, and yet it was hard parting, as we ex-
pected to meet each other no more in time. 
On our return we stopped in Hewston, Adams 
county, and spent several days with brother W. 
Riley, and the friends there, very pleasantly. 
Re-
turned to this place August 11th completely pros-
trated and sick so that I performed no labor for 
nearly a week, including Sunday the 13th ; this 
was the first Sabbath 1 had lost for a long time. 
The next Lord's day (20th ult.), I was with the 
St. Albans church, after preaching we attended to 
the Lord's Supper. 
Supposing it to be the last we 
should ever enjoy together in time, the season was 
a memorable one. 
On Wednesday the 23d, by re-
quest of the brethren I preached at Bear Creek in 
reply to the Rev. Mr. S., of C., on the subject of the 
millenium. 
His people were there; wish he could 
have been present himself, think he must have seen 
the absurdity of the world's conversion. 
Spent 
the next Sabbath .(27th), with the brethren at 
Brunee Creek, near Plymouth, where I had per-
formed considerable labor since the date of my 
last, and baptised two precious souls ; the visit was 
timely, for some of them were sick, and unable to 
attend public service, and desired personal conver-
sation with us. 
Being decided in the faith several 
of them expressed a wish to be constituted into an 
Advent church ; accordingly I drafted for them a 
constitution or covenant and left it with brother 
C., to which they might subscribe when they were 
able to come together. 
Although generally apart 
from each other by reason of sickness, yet they all 
readily pledged themselves to me that they would 
be punctual in maintaining at least one meeting of 
worship every week till the Lord come. 
Having 
received repeated and urgent calls from the friends 
in Missouri to return there, if possible, I had ar 
ranged -with brother Fry to convey me to Kirks-
ville about this time; but have just received intel-
ligence that his family is sick, 'which will prevent 
him from going, and having no other means of 
conveyance thither, I must, though with great re-
luctance give up the tour ; and through this medi-
um will say to the dear friends there, I am sorry 
I cannot meet your wishes, and as I am now about 
to leave for the north, shall probably see your 
faces no more in this mortal state; but remember 
what you have heard from God's word and take 
special heed thereto. 
Read the Advent Herald at-
tentively, and don't fail to be ready when the 
" trumpet sounds to meet the Lord in the air," 
(1 Thess. 4:16-18,) ; or in the " chambers " as 
given by Isa. 26:19-21, there to remain for a short 
period only, " till the indignation be overpast" 
the earth purified, &c. &c., "then return" to 
earth again, when " the sea is dried up," Isa. 
50:9, 10 ; Mai. 3:18, &c. &c. 
We are happy to 
learn that as the fact of our recent labor in Mo. 
some 10 or 12 precious souls are added to the 
Christian church in Kirksville, and others are still 
waiting for brother C.; the Lord direct and bless 
them is my earnest prayer. 
We have also a press-
ing call from Iowa some 100 miles northwest of 
here, but there being no direct means of convey-
ance, shall be obliged to neglect those friends also. 
Am exceedingly sorry for there was a prospect of 
doing much good there. 
Under existing circum-
stances think I shall leave next week for Rock Is-
land county ; shall probably spend a little time in 
Hampton and Moline and labor where brother Ed-
wards and Iluggles may advise and then proceed 
to Ogle, Stephenson and DeKalb counties. 
After 
completing my labors there should time continue, 
and nothing special present, it is my intention 
(perhaps in October or November), to return to 
the East, and once more mingle with brethren and 
sisters with whom I am so intimately acquainted, 
see my children in the flesh whom I have not seen 
fjr more than six years and also some of my chil-
dren in the gospel in the New England States 
which are much more numerous we trust than the 
former. 
The Lord direct all my steps is my con-
stant prayer. 
Most of my Western fields of labor are now sup-
plied with 
watchmen." 
If this section was as 
well supplied my mind would be greatly relieved. 
Some of the brethren here are corresponding with 
brother Griggs at the East. 
By reputation 1 think 
he is the man for them, the Lord direct in the case 
is my humble prayer. 
Love to the brotherhood, 
(i. e.) all who love our blessed Lord and his ap-
pearing. 
Yours my dear brother as ever, in the 
blessed hope. 
Amen. 
SAMUEL 
CHAPMAN. 
Chili, Hancock county, 111., Sept. 1st, 1854. 
SHORT 
SERMONS ON SHORT TEXTS,. 
NO. VI. 
{Continued from 
ourlast.) 
2. Those who give heed to the prophetic Script-
ures are said to do well. 
" We have also a more 
sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well to 
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark 
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise 
in your hearts."—2. Peter 1:19. The original word, 
which is by implication rendered " dark, obscure," 
literally signifies "squalid, filthy," and such a 
place fitly represents " the present evil world " 
which is defiled by sin and Satan, and darkened by 
ignorance and error. 
Respecting the work of crea-
tion we read, " And the earth was without form, 
andvoid ; and darkness was upon tha face of the 
deep. 
And God said, Let there be light : and 
there was light." As in the creation light literally 
shown upon the darkness, so the apostle here uses 
a figure, and represents this world as a dark, filthy 
place, in which the sure word of prophecy sheds 
its light. 
It has been affirmed by some that proph-
ecy cannot be understood till it is fulfilled. 
But, 
how then, we ask, can it be likentd to a light shining 
in the dareness 1 
To illustrate, let us suppose a 
man is travelling homeward. 
Night overtakes 
him. 
The road to his house lies through a piece 
of woods ; the way is narrow and rough, and he 
cannot go further without a light. 
Let us sup-
pose it possible for a lantern to be so constructed 
that it will only throw light behind the one who 
carries it, and that such a lantern is given to the 
weary traveller. 
Of what use will it be to him 1 
Should he come to a brook, or a log, it would not 
aid him in getting over his difficulty, but only show 
him when over, what it was he crossed ! And 
how much more useful is prophecy if it does not 
throw its light on the future as well as on the 
past and present 1 
This world is the night of the church; the 
world to come is her day. 
The present state being 
the worst through which she will ever have to pass, 
—being the time of her tears and her sorrows, her 
temptations and her tribulations—is well repre-
sented bv a night. 
But when Jesus comes the 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
319 1 
day dawns, and the morning Star arises upon her. 
Till then prophecy will he useful. 
By means of 
it we may know something about our proximity to 
the advent, and the nature of the events which lie 
before us, 
Some of those events may be seen but 
dimly now, for we walk by the light of the lamp, 
and not in the broad baize of day. 
But day is com-
ing. 
0 Christian, despise not the study of the 
sure word of prophecy, for you are encouraged 
to study it by the 
example of angels and of 
pious men in ages gone by, as well as by the prom-
ises of God. 
See 1. Peter 1:10-13 ; 
Rev. 1:1-3. 
Let its light shine around you, and by it you may 
be guided to the realms of everlasting day. 
To prophecy, as we have already seen, signifies 
also, to instruct in religious doctrines, to preach, 
or to exhort, as well as to fortell events. 
In this 
sense 
the word is used in Proverbs 31:1, &c. 
" The words of king Samuel, the prophecy that 
his mother taught him." 
His words are not a 
preditcion of future events. 
Consult also Ezekiel 
37:4-10 ; 
1. Corinth. 14:3. 
In the verse proceeding our text we have the 
command, " Quench not the Spirit," from which 
some might be fanatical enough to suppose that 
as the Spirit was to guide the disciples of Jesus 
into all truth, and to teach them all things that 
consequently no other teacher would be needed. 
To guard against this error, the Apostle says, 
" Despise not prophesyings." 
While the church 
must have the Spirit to teach her, shs must also 
have human " pastors and teachers " from whom 
she can receive words of edefication and comfort. 
But there is another evil into which Christians are 
in danger of falling. 
It^isAthat of trusting too 
mueh to the teaching of men, because they are 
considered great and good men, and searching too 
little for ourselves to ascertain the mind of God. 
Hence to prevent this evil in some measures, Paul 
adds in the next verse, " Prove all things; hold 
fast that which is good." 
But how much this 
command is neglected ! 
It is astonishing how lit-
tle searching of Scripture there is among 
us. 
Men seem willing and anxious to think for them-
selves on every other subject than that of religion. 
And when we look at Christendom what do we see ? 
We behold multitudes taking upon trust without 
any trial, the doctrine presented to them by minis-
ters and bishops, priests and 
popes, and thus for-
getting entirely that the command of the Apostle 
to " prove all things " was given to the " breth-
ren " generally—to all and not to a few. 
Now 
what is the result of this course? 
It is this,A 
wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the 
land; 
the 
prophets prophecy 
falsely, and the 
priests bear rule by their means; and my people 
lore to have it so ; and what will ye do in the end 
thereof? "—Jerem. 5:30, 31. 
In conclusion let me remark that those who are 
set apart to the work of the ministry by the laying 
on of hands, are not the only ones who have a 
right to prophesy in the sense of the text. 
A 
Church is not required to receive all her light and 
truth through one man. 
It is not the one man 
ministry that God recognizes. 
Hear what the 
Scriptures say, " And let us consider one another 
to provoke unto love and good works: not forsak-
ing the assembling of ourselves together, as the 
manner of some is ; but exhorting ODe another," 
that is, prophesying, " and so much the more as 
ye see the day approaching."—Heb. 10:24, 25. 
Here it is intimated that when Christians are met 
for worship, there is but one person to exhort, but 
on the contrary, we are to exhort one another 
Let those then who speak " to edefication, and ex-
hortation, and comfort " be encouraged, whether 
their gift has been acknowledged by ordination or 
not. 
The day is rapidly approaching. 
We now 
can see it nigh. 
There is no time for inactivity 
The world is rushing to the judgment. 
Thousands 
on thousands who profess religion are slumbering 
and sleeping. 
Let every available means be em-
ployed 
to arouse a slumbering Church and a 
thoughtless world to a sense of their danger. 
" Despise not prophesyings. 
Prove all things " 
in this hour of peril, and 
hold fast that which 
is good." 
It will cost your labor to do this, but 
it is better to work now than 
to be wrecked for-
ever on the rocks of deception. 
J. M. 
ORROCK. 
stan 
LETTER FROM DANIEL CAMPBELL. 
BRO. HIMES :—I have just returned after a tour 
of five weeks in the direction of Kingston. 
I left 
Tyrconnell, July 15th, and stopped over night with 
brother A. Weldon, a constant reader of the Her-
ald, and a friend of the cause. 
Sabbath, 19th, I 
preached at the Bur'dan neighborhood. 
My horse 
failing, I left him, and in the afternoon walked 
about 8 miles to London. 
I called on brother G. 
Morril, Esq., late mayor of London, who is a con-
stant reader of the Herald, a believer»in the advent 
faith and not only in word but in deed and in truth. 
I took the cars at 7 o'clock A.M., and arrived near 
St. George about 9 o'clock A.M., and walked about 
6 miles to brother Burrows' with whom I had some 
conversation and received favors at his hand as on 
former occasions. 
He is a reader of the Herald 
and has been for years. 
About 5 o'clock P.M., J 
went a few miles to viBit brother Merical, a local 
preacher, of the new connection of Methodists. 
He treated me kindly, and said he could now 
preach the judgment near. I arrived at my father's 
the next day at 10 o'clock A.M. 
They are more 
solemnly impressed with the truth of the Advent 
near than they Tiave been for several years ; and 
if they enjoyed the advantages that many do they 
would be strong in the faith. 
1 left about noon 
and preached on the 20th at brother J. Greenlee's, 
Nelson, and had comfortable times in reasoning 
out of the Scriptures. 
On the 21st I arrived at 
Karnes' neighborhood, stopped with Mr. Sovereign 
and on the 22d I took the boat for Toronto and 
visited brother Pease's to consult Avith him on the 
propriety of raising funds in the vicicnity of Co-
burg and Belleville to open the way for an advent 
preacher to travel in my old field of labor. 
Brother 
Pease and myself were chosen at our spring Con-
ference to do what could be done in that respect. 
Brother P. has done what he could, and 1 have 
spent about fourteen days in the same cause and 
through grace we have been successful. 
1 preached 
at Whitby Village and received a candid hearing. 
Spent Sabbath 23d, and preached at Coburg, a 
gentleman present invited me to go to Kingston. 
I took stage to Brighton called on Mr. F. Marsh, 
and promised to preach there on my return, which 
I did, having quite a number to hear, and among 
them two Methodist preachers. 
I walked to the 
carrying place where I arrived in the evening, 
and where I preached to one person whom I bap-
tised. 
1 travelled from house to house in four 
different neighborhoods in Ameliasburg to raise 
funds and was discountenanced by only one man. 
He was lately in California, and 1 think his gold 
has not softened his heart. 
I preached in three of 
the above neighborhoods ; and also in the vicinity 
of Belleville and Sydney, and at Smithfield. 
I also 
preached at Castleton, and bought a buggy of 
brother R. Bartenshaw on liberal terms. 
On my 
return I preached at Coburg, and also at brother 
Bradshaw's. 
I sent an appointment to brother J. 
Pearse to preach on the evening of the 11th, but 
he did not receive it, but we had a good time 
studying on the Scriptures. 
I preached at brother 
David Karnes' house on the 13th at 11 A.M., and 
in the evening of the same day at brother Green-
lee's ; and in Beverly on the 14th in the evening, 
at brother Willards. 
On the 17th 1 preached on 
the line between Westminister and Dorchester, 
and arrived at home on the 19 th. 
Found my 
family in tolerable good health thanks to a God of 
love. 
The cholera now prevails in many of the 
towns in Canada West. 
DANIEL 
CAMPBELL. 
Dunwich, Tyrconnel, August 
1	h, 
1854. 
©bituarn. 
1 I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believethin me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11:25.26. 
DIED suddenly, of Cholera, brother 
Seabury 
Brown, of Cuyler, Cortland county, N. Y., July 
8th, in the 67th year of his age. 
Brother Brown 
and wife had been on a journey to Illinois and had 
returned as far as Syracuse in good health, but he 
was taken severely ill while journeying by stage 
to his residence, and succeeded in reaching Fabius, 
where he died the next day, surrounded by his 
wife and children, and by them deeply lamented. 
Brother Brown was a man of few words, but very 
thoughtful and observant, as well as kind and af-
fectionate. 
The advent cause in this region has 
lost one of its firm friends. 
Brother Brown be-
came interested in religion and joined the Metho-
dist church in early life, but in 1849 under the 
labors ef Elder L. E. Bates became also interested 
in the blessed hope of the advent near at hand. 
His house was the " Pilgrim's home." 
Also, died of consumption, August ult., sister 
FISH, wife of brother Henry Fish, of Oaksville, 
Otsego ounty, N. Y. 
Brother and sister Fish be-
came deeply interested in the near advent of their 
Saviour, early in the year 1845, during my first 
labors in that region. 
Sister Fish was far ad-
vanced in life, and in feeble health, when I became 
first acquainted with her; 1 have ever felt at 
home when it has been my privilege to tarry there 
for a night. 
Brother Fish is in feeble health and 
far advanced in years and must be deeply afflicted. 
May God sustain him with the bright prospect 
which the resurrection presents. 
Also in Malta, near Balston Springs, Saratoga 
county, N. Y.,the 18th of May last, of a paraletic 
affection, sister 
HOWARD, wife of brother Peter 
Howard. 
Another mother in Israel has departed 
from us, and can no more be seen in making a 
home for the weary pilgrim. 
From our first be-
coming acquainted with brother and sister Howard 
in the Baptist church at Greenfield Centre, Sarato-
ga county, in September 1849, we have found them 
constant in their attachment to the advent cause 
and its friends—careing for us as a father and 
mother in times of sickness and want. 
We sym-
pathize with brother Howard and children in their 
deep affliction, and refer them to the hope which 
the Scriptures bring to view, of meeting the dear 
departed in the immortal state, where sickness, 
sorrow, and death shall never be known. 
II. H. 
GROSS. 
Homer, N. Y., Sept. 21 st, 1854. 
DIED, in Plainfield, Ct., July 17th. 1854, after 
a short but painful sickness, Mr. 
DANIEL 
W. 
FIETCHER, formerly of Chester, Vt. 
The subject of 
the above notice experienced religion in the fall of 
'42, and was soon after baptised by Elder J. H. 
Shipman. 
He continued a devoted Christian for 
about two years, but leaving home, and being sur-
rounded with the youth and the influences of these 
latter days, he lost in a measure his former enjoy-
ment. 
But his life and the circumstances of his 
death.give his friends great reason to hope in his 
end. 
He impressed with his cold lips, the last 
kiss of affection, and said, " I see angels coming," 
and expired. 
Brother Fletcher was a man of more 
than ordinary business talent, whose good sense 
and sound judgment, secured for him the confidence 
of his employers, the friendship and esteem of his 
associates. 
His remains were brought to Chester 
and deposited with those of his kindred, to sleep 
till Christ shall appear the second time then we 
hope to meet him with the loved ones who have 
gone before, clothed with immortality to die no 
more. 
F. 
Chester, Vt., Sept. 20th, 1854. 
BRO. HIMES :—My wife sleeps in Jesus ; she died 
on Thursday last, 21st September ; her disease was 
consumption. 
Deaih has claimed another vic-
tim, the destroyer has entered my dwelling and 
taken away the companion of my youth. 
But in 
my affliction I am consoled by the promise that 
there shall be a resurrection ; says the Saviour, " I 
am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth 
(or has faith) in me though he be dead ; yet shall 
he live, and whosoever believeth in me shall have 
everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last 
day." 
These promises so big with hope offers us 
consolation in this our hour of trial. 
She retained 
her senses until the last, and her trust in her 
Saviour was strong and unwavering that he would 
soon come and break the power of death and the 
grave and give life and immortality. 
Yours, waiting for redenfption at the appearing 
of Jesus Christ, 
E. M. SMITH. 
DIED, September 2d, in Lawrence, Mass., brother 
ELIKIEM PARISH, in the 29th year of his age, resi-
dent ot Baltimore, 
He was converted and em-
braced the advent faith in '44, at the time brother 
Gates resided in Baltimore. 
For a season, he 
strove to live worthy of his profession, but two or 
three of the last years of his life, he lost his first 
love, until some few weeks before his death, he 
came to Lawrence, and there, through the blessing 
of God, and faithful labors of the church he was 
induced to consecrate himself anew to God and we 
believe fell asleep in Jesus. 
His companion is 
left to mourn, yet she is among those favored ones, 
who sorrow not as those that have no hope, she is 
consoled, with the promises, that when he who 
has said, " I am the resurrection, and the life," 
shall return, he will bring the lost one with him. 
He was a natural brother to brother J. P. Nailer s 
wife, at whose residence he died. 
W. 
E. 
BURXHAM, 
A 
FRIEND writes us that brother 
ELIJRIDGE G. 
ALLEN, of Norwich, Ct., died the 26th of July. 
He was sick 2 months and suffered a great deal 
but he bore it with Christion patience and forti-
tude. 
He was still a firm believer in the second 
coming of Christ. 
Mr. Allen was a devoted 
Christian. 
He was 42 yerrs old. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Waymarks 
313 
The Ottoman Empire 
313 
Letter from J. Litch 
314 
Foreign News 
315 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
316 
Letter from I,. D. Mansfield 319 
The Hebrew New Year 
317 
01 Salary 
317 
further Foreign News 
320 
New Work 
320 
My Journal 
317 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Letter from S. Chapman.... 313 
Short Sermons on Short Texts 318 
Letter from D. Campbell 
319 
OBITUARY. 
S. Brown 
319 
D. W. Fletcher 
319 
Mrs. E. M. Smith 
319 
E. Parish 
319 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, OCTOBER 7, 1854. 
MONTHLY REPORT OP NEW SUBSCRIBERS AND STOPS. 
New subscribers during September 
42 
Stops 
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Net gain 
4 
Whole No. of new subscribers since Jan. 1st 
433 
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REMOVAL OF THIS OFFICE. 
THE new Chapel is now so far advanced that we 
expect to remove into it about the middle of this 
present month of October.—the rooms designed 
for »our occupancy being now near their com-
pletion. 
The Chapel part and stores, will not be 
completed under a few weeks later. 
The'office of the Advent Herald, will then be lo-
cated over the Chapel at the corner of Kneeland 
and Hudson-sJr ets,—the entrance to it being from 
Kneeland-street, which extends from 534 Wash-
ington-street, to 151 Sea-street. 
The Railroad Pas-
senger Depot for the Worcester and Western roads, 
is on the corner of Kneeland and 
Albany-streets, 
one street east of the new Chapel. 
And the de-
pot for the Old Colony and Fall River road, is on 
Kneeland and South-streets, four streets east of 
the Chapel. 
Kneeland-street, is also a continua-
tion of Eliot-street, which extends from the depot 
of the Providence and New Bedford Railroads, to 
Washington-street. 
Sea-street, in which Knee-
land-street terminates, is now the principal avenue 
to South Boston ; but a new one has been ordered 
to be built, which commences at the foot of Knee-
land-street. 
It will therefore be apparent 
that 
Kneeland and Eliot-streets constitute a continuous 
thoroughfare across the city, extending from the 
Providence depot, past the Chapel, the Worcester 
and Old Colony depots, to South Boston ; and it is 
the only continuous thoroughfare across the city, 
in that part ot it. 
It is therefore the principal 
street extending east and west in that neighborhood 
and can easily be found by those visiting Boston. 
Those coming in the cars on the Providence, New 
Bedford, Worcester, Old Colony and Fall River 
roads, landing on the line of the street, will need 
noguide to it. 
Those coming in on any other road 
will first inquire either for Washington or Sea-
stpeetsand then proceed up or down to No. 534 of 
the former or 151 of the latter, where they are in-
tersected by Kneeland-street. 
Hudson-street, 
on 
the corner of which the Chapel is situated is the 
third street east of Washington-street and the sixth 
street west of Sea-street. 
We have thus been particular because strangers 
sometimes find it difficult to find places in th£ city 
with which they are not familiar ; and we have of-
ten had complaints of the difficulty of finding our 
office where now located. 
THE 
DEDICATION of the x\dvent Chapel in this 
City, will probably take plape some time in No-
vember. 
Due notice will be given, that all who 
may wish to attend may have opportunity. 
In the mean time we now give a cordial invita-
tion to our brethren and sisters all abroad to 
come up to the "feast of the Dedication." 
We 
will give them the best reception that our circum-
stances in a pent up city will allow. 
We shall 
expect a glorious gathering of the faithful. 
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Send one dollar, post paid, to 
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The work is intended to be a clear and forcible 
illustration of the doctrine of the pre-millennial 
advent and reign of Christ, unriveling the intrica-
cies and mysteries of the vexed Jewish question in 
all its lights and shades. 
The following synopsis 
will give a general idea of the nature of the works. 
1. The first and second Adam :—the relation of 
each to the globe we inhabit, and to the human 
race who did originally and shall finally and for-
ever inhabit the earth. . 
2. The Jews and Jewish economy—its bearing 
on and relation to the Christian and future ever-
lasting dispensation. 
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3. The Jewish relation to the land of promise. 
A purely conditional relation, to continue only 
while they conformed to the covenant under which 
they went in to possess it ; Christ being the true 
heir. 
4. The Jewish relation to the kingdom of the 
house of David, conditional, and might have con-
tinued eternally had they comformed to the condi 
tions ; not doing so, they lost it. 
5. Christ, the true literal king of the Jews; 
he came to them literally, in his own proper per-
son as king, and asserted his claim ; and for that 
reason was rejected and crucified. 
And for this 
rejection the Jews were rejected and ejected from 
the land of promise, and the sceptre departed from 
Judah. 
[ 
6. The Jews: the sense in which they were re-
jected of God when scattered,—1. the ten tribes, 
2. the two tribes. 
7. The relation of the Jews to the everlasting 
kingdom of Christ: they will be restored to the 
land and kingdom in the resurrection and regenera-
tion ; " the house of Israel" to consist of all be-
lieving Jews, of all ages and climes, divided into 
their own tribes; the twelve apostles their chiefs. 
8. The Messiah, the Christ, the anointed, synon-
imous, and belong to prophet, priest and king.— 
The first two offices are acknowledged to have been 
filled by Christ at his first advent, in the most liter-
al sense ; the last therefore will be as fully realized. 
The new birth, its nature and absolute necessity 
in order to inherit the kingdom of God. 
The 
means and condition of its attainment. 
10. The eternal heaven of the saints to be in 
the new earth. 
The regeneration to precede the 
millennial. 
11. The millennial reign, its introduction, na-
ture, end ; and the everlasting reign. 
12. " Timesof the Gentiles," its report, progress 
and termination. 
13. The gospel of the kingdom, its nature, pro-
gress and design. 
The signs of the times. 
Many other points will come in incidentally, not 
here ennumerated. 
Nor should it be expected that 
all the foregoing, will be considered in the exact 
order, in which it is here introduced. 
The object is as far as possible, to present a con-
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as a people, are agreed, and which we regard as 
standard 
points, or 
doctrine. 
A 
desideratum 
long needed. 
To EDITORS.—Editors who will give" this pro-
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forward a copy to my address, shall be entitled 
to one copy of the work. 
Twelve copies sent by express, to one address, 
for ten dollars ; and in proportion for any larger 
number of copies. 
JOSIAH 
LITCH. 
CORRECTION.—In My Journal of this week, for 
I baptized the twins," read twin—only 
one was 
baptized. 
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Appointmcnts, &c. 
Providence permitting, I will preach at 
Back part, Sabbath, October 1st, as brother M. Clark may appoint. 
Danville, Thursday the 5th, and over the Sabbath, as brother S 
Davis may appoint. 
Compton, the 10th, at thellarvy school-house ; will brother Lemuel 
Harvy call for me on the arrival of the first train from Richmond? 
At Hatley, 12th and 13th, and over the Sabbath as Elder Warren 
may appoint. 
Barnston, 17th, 18th and 19th, as Elder Thurber may arrange ; by 
request, I will deliver an address on the nature, importance, and 
benefits of Sacred Music, at the last meeting. A full attendance 
is desired. No meetings on Mondays or Saturdays. 
Week-day 
meetings at 7 o'clock, or otherwise as brothers in charge may 
think best 
The above appointments are made by the kind direc-
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Outlet, C. E., Sabbath, Oct. 22d ; Head of the Bay, 24th and 25th ; 
Portland, Me., Sabbath, 29th ; Essex, Mass., Sabbath, Nov. 5th. 
N. 
BILLINGS. 
Brother Burden's neighborhood, 18th. 
Ciarenceville, 19th and over the Sabbath. 
Week evening appointments at 7 o'clock. 
BENJ. WEBB. 
I WILL preach at 
Kensington, Oct 8th. 
Lee, Oct. 15th, where brother N. Wiggin may appoint. 
GEO. W. 
THOMPSON. 
I WILL preach at 
P 
Morristown, Vt., Oct. 6th. 
Waterbury, Sabbath, 8th; Rochester, 10th. 
Woodstock, (Dinsmore Hill) 12th. 
Windham, (or where brother Bemis may appoint) Sabbath, 
15th. 
Week-day appointments at early candle-light. 
ADDISON 
MERRILL. 
I WILL preach at 
Waterbury, Vt., Sunday, Oct., 2d. 
Burlington, Vt., Oct., 3d, 7 P.M. 
Ciarenceville, Sunday, 8th. 
Odletown, Sunday, 15th, at the stone school house. 
G. P. Dow. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will commence a meeting at South Ver 
shire, Oct. 12, and Continue over the Sabbath. 
East Haverhill, Wednesday, 18th, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Brother Sornberger is requested to attend. 
B S. REYNOLDS. 
THE.Lord will, I will preach in Nashua, N. II., Lord's day, Oct. 8th. 
Manchester, N. H., 15th. 
ELD. I. C. WELI-COME will preach in Richmond. Read meeting 
house, Sunday, Oct. 8th. 
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